Bruce Patton is a co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a mediator, he was instrumental in resolving the U.S.-Iran hostage crisis, worked with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias to ensure the success of a Central American peace plan, and helped craft the constitutional process that ended apartheid in South Africa.
Everyone negotiates every day. This book shows how to go about it. How to speak to be understood and how to listen to understand. How to focus on interests and not on positions. How to be concrete but flexible. How to be hard on the problem but soft on people. How to make the most of your assets.
The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to: · Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation · Start a conversation without defensiveness · Listen for the meaning of what is not said · Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations · Move from emotion to productive problem solving