Business Negotiation

In this book, you will learn Walker's essential negotiation principles and strategies, as well as his tools and techniques, all of which are supported by real-life case studies. You can begin to add these techniques to your repertoire immediately to become a world-class negotiator, capable of persuading anyone, no matter how tenacious and uncompromising they may be.

On average, people leave about 20 percent of potential mutual gains untapped in any negotiation. This is akin to taking 20 percent of the value in any deal and dumping it into a garbage canister. Finding that hidden 20 percent, the “sweet spot”, is a skill that takes practice but is also one that anybody can learn. In Negotiating the Sweet Spot, Leigh Thompson offers surefire best practices and tools to use in daily negotiations and conflict situations.

In the world of sales, YOUR WORDS MATTER. The way you communicate can either make or break a deal. It's not just about what you say, but how you say it. That's where "101 Things You Should Never Say in Sales (and What to Say Instead)" comes into play. This enlightening guide offers insights into the art and science of effective communication in sales. This is not just another sales book; it's a comprehensive manual that will help you refine your sales narrative, enhance your positioning, build positive engagement, and promote a customer-centric approach - all through the power of words. The...

Nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child, Fotini Iconomopoulos has been honing her skills her entire life. As a sought-after expert, for more than a decade she’s been empowering Fortune 500 executives and their teams to achieve their objectives, guiding them through high-stakes scenarios in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail, professional services, energy, telecommunications, tech, and finance. Now for the first time, Iconomopoulos shares her simple and innovative strategies, debunks common negotiation myths, and more.

Imagine that from the first moment of a conversation you can see which emotions a person feels. This person's facial expressions will reveal you all the necessary information, whether to sign a contract, to offer a different price or to employ this person in your company. If you know also how to use our BLINK Conversation Technique™, you will be able to adjust your words to what you see and become more successful in closing deals. Now think how much time you will save, time you’ve spent before on ineffective conversations with people that weren’t interested. Your negotiations, ...

The 10 commandments of negotiation are time-tested fundamentals based on three traits most desired in negotiators by CEOs: personality, knowledge of human nature, and ability to organize information. If you can obey the 10 commandments, you will be successful more times than not in any negotiation.

In Don't Let Them Catch You Selling, the author nails the essence of sales. In Chapter 5, he points out: "'Please, please give me an appointment,' and 'Please, please buy my product' are not proven sales strategies. It is a natural reaction for all creatures to back away when being pursued." This explains why people resist being sold. The interaction is, apparently, more complicated, however. As noted in the Introduction: people may resist being sold, but are evolutionary predisposed to buy. How to successfully navigate this human contradiction, and achieve success in the sales profession, ...

Difficult Conversations teaches you how to handle even the toughest conversations more effectively and with less anxiety. Based on 15 years of work at Harvard Negotiation Project and consultations with thousands of people, the authors answer the question: When people confront the conversations they dread the most, what works? Difficult Conversations walks you through a proven, concrete, step-by-step approach for understanding and conducting tough conversations.

In the newly updated third edition of The Negotiation Book: Your Definitive Guide to Successful Negotiating, distinguished commercial negotiator Steve Gates delivers a singular and practical guide to the art and science of negotiation. The book lays out the behaviors and traits associated with successful negotiation and offers a comprehensive model for how power, process, and behavior can have substantial impacts on your next negotiation. You'll also learn how you can shape these factors to optimize value for yourself, your client, or your organization.

Today's super negotiator has to be a versatile problem solver, seeking hard-bargain results with a soft touch. With punch and panache, Bob Mayer shows you how to make the grade, revealing powerful negotiating tools draw from a unique blend of sources.

Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the 20th century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie-maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens, a sexual sultan with a harem of teenage consorts, a political influencer with intimate ties to Watergate, a Las Vegas kingpin, and, ultimately, a bizarre recluse.

The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before.

Stuck in a "win-win versus win-lose" mind-set, most negotiators focus on the face-to-face process at the table. David Lax and James Sebenius urge bargainers to look beyond tactics at the table. Persuasive tactics are only the "first dimension" of the authors' path-breaking approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers.

Steve Dalton’s 2-Hour Job Search simplified the process of finding work by utilizing technology, and now The Job Closer helps you seal the deal by applying his time-saving techniques to the surrounding steps. As a career consultant, Dalton has found that job seekers routinely overinvest in trivial aspects of the employment hunt while underestimating the important ones. In this guide, you’ll learn how to avoid wasted effort and excel in all areas.

Here Roger Dawson explains the ins and outs of power negotiation—a process with its own secret rules and procedures. Knowing these rules will enable you to negotiate intelligently and honestly—in sales and in any other area of life. Power negotiating is not what you think. It’s an art and a science for reaching an outcome where both parties feel that they’ve won. This densely packed and easy to understand book will give you a wealth of information

Negotiation is a basic human activity that arises out of wants, desires, needs, and disputes. You want something I have. I want to trade for something you have. You believe I wronged you, and you want damages. As organized collections of people, we negotiate terms of exchange. In The Seven Tensions of Negotiation, you’ll discover how to simply say “maybe not” and leverage the seven tensions of negotiation to your advantage.

The Art of War, first written by the great Sun Tzu over 2,500 years ago, has remained relevant throughout history to anyone in a leadership position; be it politics, human psychology, business, or even daily life situations, there is wisdom in Sun Tzu's teachings that is relevant to all. In this book, we will interpret his teachings as they relate to the 21st century business world, specifically the art of negotiation. You will learn that true wisdom is timeless, and that applying the time-tested tactics in this book can propel you to the next level of success.

Do you know how to negotiate a better deal for yourself? Do you know that you can use the power of negotiation whatever may be the situation you are in? In this mini-audiobook Ambi Parameswaran, a veteran brand strategist and coach, gives you some invaluable lessons on negotiation.

Are you tired of always fighting for attention? Plagued by unfair treatment in the workplace? Lacking anybody cool to confide in? Sociologist and entrepreneur Lucio Buffalmano’s resource-filled website has led thousands of students down a path of flourishing power and riches. Bestselling author Ali Scarlett has helped countless listeners position themselves to mingle with the international elite. And now they’ve come together to share their advanced science-backed methodology for achieving highly gratifying personal empowerment.

No matter the conversation, detecting honesty and persuading others to be honest are some of the most valuable skills you can learn. With these skills, you can master your daily conversations and interactions with others. The Strategic Interviewing Skills and Competencies (SISCO) Method will help you see the full picture, have all the facts, and make effective decisions. Former Navy interrogator, Lena Sisco, created this method during challenging investigative and information-gathering interviews. Her 5-step program focuses human-to-human interaction.