Businesses are continuing to globalize and confront more-sophisticated technological, regulatory, economic and environmental demands (to name just a few).

By its very nature and judges are sometimes too judgmental because of their educational guide, and lawyers mostly have trouble shedding their role as advocates or they are also conditioned to look at any issies with a legal perspective.

One of the hardest parts of many mediation processes is just getting people to agree to participate. As is explained in more detail in the section on Limits to Agreement: Better Alternatives people are unlikely to be willing to negotiate if they think they