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Summary: Clear, detailed, yet commonsensical
Review: This was a great book. It helped me negotiate a multi-million dollar contract with very little hassel. I feel that it is a must read for everyone. Sincerely, Grant Meachum, Phd Butler University
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Summary: IMMEDIATELY APPLICABLE, A MUST READ
Review: This book is well written and gives food for thought for anybody who is challenged in negotiating and getting agreement. I would consider it a must read for anybody ! Well done.
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Summary: Immediately helpful in a tough situation
Review: This book was of immediate practical help in working with a situation in which our community is at odds with the government's roadbuilding machine. When the money and the power are against you, all you have are your principles. "Getting to Yes" is about getting your principles straight, using them, and what to do in difficult real-world situations, including where the other side holds all the good cards and has no principles. Anyone in a tough spot, and with a working imagination, needs to read it.
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Summary: Not much interesting to read and not very helpful
Review: This book is very boring to read and not helpful. I have read better ones.
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Summary: The book about honesty, simplicity and common sense.
Review: It's really not easy to imagine a more effective and better book about negotiation skills. The authors reached very deep exploring the subject and, what's of the greatest value, with a beautiful simplicity: the whole approach is based on the common sense and reader can follow it intuitively. It seems you that there is nothing especially new in the book, but only pieces are placed on their proper positions, so you can get the whole picture. That's why this book, no doubt, will further spread the help to millions, not only on how to negotiate but also how to think. Looking for the way to save us from ourselves, the author showed us one road. If not the unique one, it's one of the best in the right direction and one we could take in time -- now.I found this excellent book during my research for writings provoked by the decade of Balcanian "madness and badness", and after reading "Beyond Machiavelli", which is turned primarily towards high diplomacy staff. I was really excited discovering so much the same thinking to my own. Nevertheless, I mean that things viewed "from these shoes" still ask some additional answers and methods to be added. I'd like to find enough time to try, and "Getting to Yes" remains one of my main supports. Potential reader could be misguided by the subtitle "Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In". Being there because of a mere overlook or because of marketing reasons, "giving in" sounds here as an absolutely unacceptable option. Instead, of course, giving in should become a normal step whenever we find out, even applying methods from this book, that our arguments are wrong. On the very same presumption lies any possible method to resolve conflicts peacefully. Well, it's only the subtitle; the book is written honestly, not as 'tricks and tips on how to cheat the other side but not to give in'. Let me hold up the fifth star for a better book, If I ever read some
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Summary: This book helps you communicate better every day.
Review: The ideas in this book teach people how to create win-win situations by listening and communicating. We negotiate for everything we do, from deciding where to take the family for dinner to buying the next computer to acquiring another business. This practical and golden advice will help you become happier as well as more successful.
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Summary: a good book
Review: as the manager of a middle sized distributor we found this book deals with the stalls in negotiating, and can teach us all useful methods. if stalls are what you need to solve, THE 2000 PERCENT SOLUTION,WHICH IS JUST OUT IS THE NEW BIBLE ON HOW TO SOLVE STALLS. SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING
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Summary: A Great Way to Overcome Communications Stalls
Review: In virtually all circumstances where people are working together, they come to agreement in ways that short-change the interests of everyone involved. This landmark book shows practical ways to find out what other people want, and to devise better alternatives that create a "win" for everyone. The authors do a great job of overcoming the preconception that many hold that working on problems means that you have to be unpleasant. The advice to be hard on the problems and easy on the people (building a relationship) is a key concept that everyone can use. I have found this book to be one of the most helpful that I have every read, and I cite its lessons in my own book. I recently had a chance to use these principles in a negotiating workshop with veteran negotiators, and I was struck by how few people apply the lessons of GETTING TO YES. You will vastly improve your life if you read and practice the ideas in GETTING TO YES.
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Summary: Naive and unhelpful
Review: Most negotiations are zero-sum games, i.e., you and the other side argue over a certain price--you take a one position: low price, other side takes the other position: high price. This is a fact Fisher and Ury naively try to deny. Their main idea is that you shouldn't argue from a position (high price/low price) but should try to find creative ways to mutually satisfy everyone's "shared and compatible interests." Yeah, of course, and they are right that sometimes these shared interests are overlooked, but the really difficult negotiations consist of both sides fighting over a fixed amount and there is nothing for the sides to do except take opposed positions. What "shared and compatible interests" do you have with the car salesman or plaintiff's attorney who has the single-minded goal of taking as much money from you as possible? Even if there are shared interests, and you can enlarge the pie, there is still the hard zero-sum issue of how to divide the pie. For zero-sum negotiations (i.e., most of them) _Getting to Yes_ is not helpful. A much better book on negotiating is _The Art and Science of Negotiation_ by Howard Raiffa.
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Summary: Incredibly useful at work/in private life, if you read it!
Review: Must agree with previous reviews. A book worth money and time to read it even for several times. Enjoyable studying literature. Am just about to start reading the sequence "Getting Past No".
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