Getting to Yes; Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher; William Ury; Bruce Patton; Guyer Guyer

• ISBN13: 9780743526913
• ISBN10: 0743526910
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Audio CD
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Summary

Getting to Yes is a straightorward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken -- and without getting angry.

It offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict -- whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deal continually with all levels of negotiations and conflict resolutions from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells you how to:

• Separate the people from the problem
• Focus on interests, not positions
• Work together to create opinions that will satisfy both parties
• negotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to "dirty tricks"

Author Biography

Roger Fisher teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he is Williston Professor of Law emeritus and director of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Raised in Illinois, he served in WWII with the U.S. Army Air Force, in Paris with the Marshall Plan, and in Washington D.C., with the Department of Justice. He consults widely with governments, corporations, and individuals through Conflict Management, Inc., and the Conflict Management Group of Cambridge, Massachusetts.