Master Negotiator

As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unraveled. His political sense and the ability to test Soviet leaders, negotiate insoluble problems in the Middle East, charm friends, and achieve the placement of a unified Germany in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization were unmatched. Diana Villiers Negroponte, an author, lawyer, and professor, highlights how Baker mobilized a coalition of international military forces, including the Soviets, to repel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Baker seduced Israeli and West Bank Palestinians to meet face to face and begin the Oslo peace process and ended two civil wars in Central America. While he was initially hesitant about the Nunn Lugar bill to safeguard Soviet nuclear weapons, he became a driving force to transport nuclear material to secure sites in Russia. The author also highlights Baker’s failures, such as the inability to hold Yugoslavia together or to provide sufficient funds to stop the collapse of the Soviet economy. With a foreword written by former President George H.W. Bush, this book reveals Baker’s skills as a statesman—and explores how he changed the world.

The Negotiation Book will help you develop your emotional intelligence so you can become a highly skilled negotiator in all areas of your life--whether you're negotiating with customers, colleagues, family, or friends. You'll take a journey to becoming a master negotiator, this book equipping you with the tools and techniques to put negotiation theory into practice. Learn how to: Develop a winning mind-set Prepare successfully for any negotiation Recognize and respond to different negotiation situations Deal effectively with gameplay Manage the negotiation conversation Understand how to draw negotiations to a successful close. An inspiring and engaging handbook packed with Nicole Soames' expert advice, practical tools, and exercises, The Negotiation Book will help you master the art of negotiation quickly and effectively.

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.

"Michael Geraghty is a master storyteller" - IBM Corporation This book is the product of thousands of negotiations all over the world. Negotiation is the "art of friendly persuasion." It is "the ability to sell yourself and your ideas." Study after study reveals that negotiation is one of the top three skills in life and on the job. Great negotiators become key contributors to any company or organization. In this book you will gain a great understanding of the psychology of negotiation. You will develop powerful persuasion skills to ensure your success. Using his extensive business experience, Geraghty shows you how the art of negotiation can be understood as a one act drama with four amazing characters-power, information, time and rapport. The more you understand each of these characters the better the negotiator you will become. In addition, he explains thirty-four tactics used by master persuaders that anybody can use anytime anywhere. Full of amazing stories, practical advice and packed with vivid real world examples, Anybody Can Negotiate - Even You! will assist the ordinary person intimidated by negotiation. Let Geraghty help you wake up the negotiation genius inside you!

Sharks are not evil. But they're single-minded and very, very hungry. On land, they take the form of bosses, businesspeople, colleagues, family, and sociopathic neighbors. In the world of former governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, they have taken the form of the most powerful people in the world. He's engaged in high-stakes, face-to-face negotiations with Castro, Saddam, the Taliban, two generations of North Korean leadership, and many more of the world's most infamous dictators—and done it so well he was known as the "Undersecretary of Thugs" while with the Clinton administration. Now the 5-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee tells these stories—from Washington, DC, to the Middle East to Pyongyang—in all their intense and sometimes absurd glory. How to Sweet-Talk a Shark is a rare, candid, and entertaining glimpse into an insider's world of high-stakes negotiation—showing Richardson's successes and failures in some of the world's least friendly places. Meanwhile, readers get frank lessons in the art of negotiation: how to prepare, how to size up your opponent, how to understand the nature of power in a standoff, how to give up only what is necessary while getting what you want, and many other strategies Richardson has mastered through at-the-table experience—and from working with other master negotiators like Presidents Obama and Clinton, and Nelson Mandela. These are takeaways that anyone can use to negotiate with the power brokers, dealmakers, and, yes, the hungry sharks in their own lives.

Black Belt Negotiating uses the principles of martial arts to guide readers step-by-step, from basic techniques through advanced strategies, all the way to achieving their 'black belt' in negotiating.