This book is unlike others written on negotiation. It does not expect you to get by with basic tactics; rather it provides you with a blueprint, to help you obtain a desired result. The 29 Laws of Negotiation, is a powerful book for anyone in the business world, but indispensable for the success of sales and purchasing professionals. Covering all aspects of the negotiation process, this book will show you how to: - Maximize profits in every negotiation - Discover the other party´s bottom line - Ask better questions - Create trust - Improve communication - Prepare for any negotiation - Present information effectively - Increase your power and leverage - Develop a winning strategy - Master the art of human persuasion

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.

"You cannot run an organization effectively, no matter how big or small, without negotiating with multiple vendors for office equipment, computers, vehicles and other equipment necessary to operate your core functions. "Smoke Signals" provides a realistic approach to negotiations, giving you confidence with tips to improve your effectiveness negotiating. A must have pocket-book and a sure savings for your organization." Jerald Paul, Deputy Chief of Police, Columbia Illinois Police Department This book is for anyone who wants to give themselves the best chance to buy that new car at the best price with the least anxiety. It is also for anyone who wants to buy a new home, or win that business contract, or settle a dispute. Smoke signals were used by indigenous peoples to communicate without actually talking because they did not have instant messaging or texting on their phones; how primitive! Smoke signals can also describe the un-spoken rules and mores of negotiation. Whether we are buying a home, selling a home, making a business deal or settling a lawsuit - we negotiate. This book reveals the un-spoken rules that seasoned negotiators use to make deals, and they apply to virtually every situation. Smoke Signals, The Eleven Unwritten Rules of Negotiation shows you how to put yourself in the best position to close the deal - whatever that deal is. George A. Kiser is a Partner at the Edwardsville, Illinois law firm of Hepler Broom and practices civil litigation. He specializes in toxic tort litigation. He has tried 29 cases to a jury verdict and argued before the Missouri Supreme Court, Seventh and Eighth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis and the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Illinois. He has negotiated contracts for a major municipal corporation and several other clients, negotiated settlements on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits, bought and sold his own homes and bought and sold several cars. He and his wife, Kathy, have two boys and live i n Glen Carbon, Illinois.

Each year American executives make nearly eight million trips overseas for international business. In the process, they leave billions of dollars on the negotiation table. Global Negotiation provides critical tools to help businesspeople save money (and face) when negotiating across cultural divides. Drawing on their more than 50 combined years of experience, as well as extensive field research with over 2000 business people in 21 different cultures, John L. Graham and William Hernández Requejo have discovered how to create long-lasting commercial relationships around the world. The authors provide a rare combination of practical insight and illuminating anecdotes, and offer examples from well-known companies such as Toyota, Ford, Intel, AT&T, Rockwell, Boeing, and Wal-Mart.

When discussing being stuck in a "win-win vs. win-lose" debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet, table tactics are only the "first dimension" of David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius' pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation (TM) approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers. Moves in their "second dimension"—deal design—systematically unlock economic and noneconomic value by creatively structuring agreements. But what sets the 3-D approach apart is its "third dimension": setup. Before showing up at a bargaining session, 3-D Negotiators ensure that the right parties have been approached, in the right sequence, to address the right interests, under the right expectations, and facing the right consequences of walking away if there is no deal. This new arsenal of moves away from the table often has the greatest impact on the negotiated outcome. Packed with practical steps and cases, 3-D Negotiation demonstrates how superior setup moves plus insightful deal designs can enable you to reach remarkable agreements at the table, unattainable by standard tactics.

The Law of the Sea (LOS) treaty resulted from some of the most complicated multilateral negotiations ever conducted. Difficult bargaining produced a remarkably sophisticated agreement on the financial aspects of deep ocean mining and on the financing of a new international mining entity. This book analyzes those negotiations along with the abrupt U.S. rejection of their results. Building from this episode, it derives important and subtle general rules and propositions for reaching superior, sustainable agreements in complex bargaining situations. James Sebenius shows how agreements were possible among the parties because and not in spite of differences in their values, expectations, and attitudes toward time and risk. He shows how linking separately intractable issues can generate a zone of possible agreement. He analyzes the extensive role of a computer model in the LOS talks. Finally, he argues that in many negotiations neither the issues nor the parties are fixed and develops analytic techniques that predict how the addition or deletion of either issues or parties may affect the process of reaching agreement.