Negotiation Genius: How to Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table

The narrator has a slow and monotone voice which makes it difficult to keep interest and continue to listen. The content is good. However, the unabridged version may be the better route to take, having been shortened.

Yes it is a "long" listen and I chose this book in a time where I was going through some family communication issues and wanted to quickly cover the entire book. I played it in my car, on my ipod, and docked it in my house. After five days I finished both parts and could not be more pleased! I loved all case studies shared to explain response probability!

I would recommend this book highly. I have read getting to yes - this seems far more contemporary and useful to me.

Not really. The book has interesting content, but it's incredibly hard to follow along. The narrator is extremely monotone and makes a good book terrible.

The real life stories.

A new narrator.

I have used its applications in real world business already.

A good book if you haven't been exposed to negotiation tactics before. A number of their theories are supported with studies and they even used an example from a favorite of mine, Moneyball. It is a bit of negotiations mixed with sales and psychology. If you've been successful in a sales capacity before, especially at a high level, you will know most of this stuff already but it's not a bad refresher.

The book is very good, very structured but uses many examples with figures and complicated structures. If you cannot follow it with 110% attention you rather get the printed version to follow the examples better.

Depending on the subject... if it was something I needed to understand better, I would.

Yes, this is an excellent skill that can be learned.

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No this is an instructional book

The good: The content was conducive to an audio book. I also have this on my Kindle app for the iPad, which is better if you want to take notes. Very much enjoyed the narration as well. Speed 1 was comfortable, but I cranked it to 1.5, then to 2, then to 3 for quick absorption and the narration held water on all speeds as did the content.

The bad: The chapters did not line up to the chapters in the actual book. Very annoying. That needs to be fixed.

I really wanted to like this book. I got this one because i plan on getting a car soon and i wanted an edge.

This book is more for people who negotiate for a living, and was not very helpful at all for what i was looking to do.

Although i did find two things useful, "anchoring" (the reason car dealers use MSRP), and contingency clause (not useful for the car but possibly useful for other negotiations)

The book is a little dry and i could only take it down in bite sizes (30 min here and there).

Overall there is some useful info for those Negotiation pros out there, but not really for the beginner or novice.

This book provided me with practical tools and ideas to use in real life negotiations. In fact, while I was listening to it, I was able to negotiate an additional $25000 discount off of my company's replacement phone system.