Opinion: when nice pays

Can you be nice strategically?
I have been reflecting on this question since Ipicked up a whisper earlier in the week that Aquiline had
agreed a deal to sell its majority stake in Beach to Acrisure.
My sources tell me thatthe deal was done on a bilateral basis. The private equity firm
led by Jeff Greenberg opted not to put Grahame Millwater and the
Beach management team through the ordeal of a formal sale
process.
Had Aquiline done...