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"
You've heard it all before, "be positive, know what you want, invent options for mutual gain." But have you developed a strategy? Originally written as negotiation tactics for lawyers, this book offers advice on getting what you want. It addresses issues such as what to accept from those you negotiate with and what to offer without giving up anything on your side.
About the Author:
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 World War II with the U.S. Army Air Force, in Paris with the Marshall Plan, and in Washington, D.C., with the Department of Justice. He has also practiced law in Washington and served as a consultant to the Department of Defense. He was the originator and executive editor of the award-winning television series The Advocates. He consults widely with governments, corporations, and individuals through Conflict Management, Inc., and the Conflict Management Group of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
William Ury co-founded Harvard's Program on Negotiation, where he directs the Negotiation Network. He has served as a mediator and advisor in negotiations and now serves as an advisor to the International Negotiation Network at the Carter Center of Emory University. Formerly on the faculty of Harvard Business School, Ury has taught negotiation to corporate executives, labor leaders, and government officials around the world. He has also served as a consultant to the White House on establishing nuclear risk reduction centers in Washington and Moscow. Ury's most recent book is Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People. Raised in California and Switzerland, he received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his doctorate 'in anthropology from Harvard.
Bruce Patton, deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, is the Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. A lawyer, he teachesnegotiation to diplomats and corporate executives around the world and works as a negotiation consultant and mediator in international, corporate, labor-management, and family settings. Associated with the Conflict Management organizations, which he cofounded in 1984, he has both graduate and under-graduate degrees from Harvard.
The authors of this book have been working together since 1977.