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Negotiating the Impossible
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Negotiating the Impossible

How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle)

Berrett-Koehler, 2016 mais...


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8

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  • Innovative
  • Applicable

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Harvard Business School’s Deepak Malhotra offers you three powerful tools – “empathy,” “process” and “framing” – for successful negotiation. Malhotra describes each technique, gives concrete tips on using it and offers historical examples of its application. He relates how President John F. Kennedy used empathy to defuse the Cuban missile crisis, and how Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal overcame religious resistance to the introduction of television by reframing it as a medium for disseminating the Quran. getAbstract recommends Malhotra’s indispensable manual to entrepreneurs, business strategists, labor negotiators, government officials, and anyone who negotiates salaries or contracts.

Take-Aways

  • In negotiations, be steadfast in your demands and flexible about how the other side can meet them. Use three powerful tools: “empathy,” “process” and “framing.”
  • You’re likelier to reach your goals if you have empathy for the other side’s perspective.
  • Try to influence the “process” – details like deadlines and the order of speakers. And if you can’t shape the process, learn as much about it as you can.

About the Author

Deepak Malhotra is the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he teaches negotiation. He won the HBS Faculty Award in 2011. An international consultant, he also wrote Negotiation Genius and I Moved Your Cheese.


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