Getting to Yes: How to Negotiate Agreement Without Giving In (Audio)
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict—whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard...
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Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict—whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells listeners how to:
• Separate the people from the problem
• Focus on interests, not positions
• Work together to create options that will satisfy both parties
• Negotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to "dirty tricks"
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Format: mp3 Audiobook
ISBN:
9781508220527
Publish date: 2011-05-03
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition language: English
This one was pretty technical. The authors really break down the thought process of having a principled negotiation instead of trying to negotiate either "soft" or "hard." They provide a variety of examples/case studies that emphasize the point. Not going to lie, this was a bit dry, but very good bo...
I think this is one of those books that anyone can benefit from. Everyone needs to engage in some form of negotiation, and this book provides valuable strategies anyone can use. Recommended for all human beings.
Along with Difficult Conversations and Beyond Winning this is one of three texts, plus handouts, used at a Negotiation course at Harvard Law taken by students all over the university--and by people from all over the world. At the end of the course, the students spontaneously rose to give the teacher...
This is exactly the type of book I studied Literature to avoid having to read. But it wasn't horrible, and I stored away a few tips for future reference with the thinking that this is the kind of book that becomes most useful in least-expected moments. I enjoyed the narrative examples more than th...
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