Negotiating Game

Michael Watkins' best-selling book The First 90 Days has become the business bible for accelerating leadership transitions. Now, Watkins zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions: negotiation. In Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating, Watkins draws from extensive research and practical consulting work to reveal four fundamental objectives that should guide new leaders' actions in every negotiation.

The Game Before the Play shows you the truth: negotiations don’t start at the table. They start with preparation, power, and perspective. When you master these unseen dynamics, you stop reacting and start leading. You’ll learn how to build confidence, influence outcomes, and tilt the odds in your favor — in any setting.

Author Elira Fontayne explains why the showroom feels so carefully staged–the lighting, the music, the polished displays–and how every element is engineered to keep you relaxed, impressed, and just a little dazzled. She reveals the psychological triggers dealerships rely on, from “anchoring” high prices to make lesser ones seem like bargains, to the “Monthly Payment Maze” that hides the true cost of your car behind appealingly small numbers.

An accessible, light-hearted exploration into game theory. Haim Shapira describes what it is, why it is important, and how it can help us in our daily lives. This audiobook provides many humorous anecdotes and insightful examples of how our daily lives are affected by game theory. Game theory is the mathematical formalization of interactive decision-making - it assumes that each player's goal is to maximize his/her benefit, whatever it may be. Players may be friends, foes, political parties, states, or any entity that behaves interactively, whether collectively or individually.

Legendary Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman, a pioneer in the field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to reach an agreement over Zoom or during a supply chain crisis. Negotiation offers a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the importance of the unique context of any negotiation—and when and how it should influence how you negotiate.

When we make decisions we like to think we weigh the options carefully, look at all the possibilities, and make the best choice based on a rational examination of the facts. But in truth, much of our decision making happens on a subconscious level based on feelings we might not even be aware of. By observing and predicting human behavior, we can learn to react and direct behavior in others with the right kinds of words and body language. If you want to learn how to convince people to buy your product, contribute to your cause, or vote for your candidate, this book has the answers.

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.

The aim of David McAdams’s Game-Changer is nothing less than to empower you with this wisdom - not just to win in every strategic situation (or “game”) you face but to change those games and the ecosystems in which they reside to transform your life and our lives together for the better.

Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball will dramatically change the way we approach the sales process, replacing the gratuitous complexity advocated by today's sales "experts" with an elegant and very effective simplicity. Studies have shown that the selling techniques of the last two decades have had very little impact on most of the sales population. Why?

In The Invisible Game: The Secrets and the Science of Winning Minds and Winning Deals, neuroscientist Kai-Markus Mueller and sales professional Gabriele Rehbock deliver a hands-on guide to the hidden dynamics that influence the outcomes of most business deals. In plain English, the book unpacks recently discovered insights from psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience, and explains how to apply them to your advantage in real-life business situations.

With his more than three decades of negotiating experience and unique presentation style, Herb's dynamic process will enable you to anticipate, predict, prepare, and successfully respond in all of life's negotiable relationships.

Imagine a world where you are offered every job you seek; every business venture you undertake is successful; and every potential customer you approach buys your product. Now imagine that all of this can be achieved ethically and honestly. All you need is the help of one battle-tested guide, The Influence Game. Former Washington, DC lobbyist Stephanie Vance dispenses everything she's learned about effective (and, believe it or not, honest) persuasion.

In How to Negotiate Anything, Anywhere, Cohen demonstrates—in an entertaining way—how to negotiate with savvy. Using humorous lessons and insightful anecdotes—and even employing apt imitations of famous personalities and personal acquaintances—Cohen communicates different negotiating strategies and how they can be used.

As a master negotiator for more than three decades, Herb Cohen is "the guy the pros go to." Here with wit and wisdom, Herb reveals his conceptual canopy—a step-by-step approach for establishing and maintaining mutually satisfying long-term relationships. Emphasizing the importance of style (manner and means) over substance (terms and conditions), and using recognizable anecdotes and examples, you will learn how to transform an opponent into a genuine partner.

Marketing departments aren't providing the leads they should, so it's left up to the sales team to generate their own leads. You must be part marketer, part relationship developer, part closer, and part CEO. Everything in this audiobook is presented with the intent of helping you and your people develop a strategy for translating or communicating your value in a manner that helps you get paid for that value in the marketplace.

Introducing The Art of Win-Win, a groundbreaking guide packed with proven strategies that will have you secure boardroom deals with the finesse of a seasoned pro! With the right mix of empathy and creativity, you’ll learn to turn every negotiation into a win-win situation, leaving both parties feeling like champions.

As an adviser to U.S. Presidents and intimately involved with several highly publicized international negotiating dramas, Herb Cohen has earned the title of "World's Greatest Negotiator." Employing a geocentric perspective, Cohen views bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. In successful global negotiation, Cohen emphasizes, "We don't see things as they are, but as we are. In fact, if there is anyone here exactly like you, there would be no need for you to be here."

Witnessing a private act leads to some interesting negotiations... Software programmer Veronica James is struggling to make her new business a success. After finally landing a major account, she's at risk of losing it all when she catches her new client Victor Rossi in a very compromising position. In an effort to regain the upper hand, Rossi insists on some sexy and compromising concessions from her that have Veronica reconsidering her hard fast rule of not mixing business with pleasure.

Not everyone approves of the practice of negotiation. There are those who hate it because they think it is too confrontational, or they simply don't want to be bothered. This audiobook will demonstrate that negotiations in everyday transactions do not necessarily have to be confrontational, instead, they can be fun. The guidelines in this audiobook will teach you new ways to deal with people, regardless of how difficult or insensitive they are. You will become a better negotiator during both simple, day-to-day negotations and complex negotiation situations.