Business C1 · Unit 4 · High-stakes negotiation
4A. If we had signed then…
C1 · Advanced Business English · mixed conditionals
Unit 4 · Epigraph
"The deal you regret is rarely the one you refused. It is the one you signed in the last hour because leaving felt more expensive than staying."
Objectives
What you'll be able to do
- Speak retrospectively about a past deal in a register a board would find defensible.
- Deploy mixed conditionals to link a past decision to a present cost — and vice versa.
- Distinguish an in-room concession from a pre-room mistake, out loud.
- Recognise, and name, the 'architect-of-hope' effect in your own negotiations.
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