Negotiation: The Art of the Confrontation

Author: Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Group Li Shangjie Luo Yaqin
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: In today's rapidly changing market society, negotiation is becoming increasingly important. Whether it's individuals or organizations, they need to approach negotiation economically. Excellent negotiation can build good relationships and bring about win-win outcomes. Poor negotiation may damage relationships, cause cooperation plans to fail, and result in significant losses. Outstanding negotiators are not born; anyone can become an excellent negotiator through hard work. This book sets high aspirations, emphasizing collaborative negotiation, and advocates that the core elements of negotiation are to achieve goals by changing negotiation perspectives based on clarifying both parties' interests, and to establish long-term strategic cooperative relationships. The book covers several aspects, including fostering collaborative negotiation, building and maintaining strategic intelligence, dealing with negotiation pressure, and cross-cultural negotiation. The book progresses from simple to complex, providing insightful guidance that greatly benefits managers in improving their management skills. Clarify goals to achieve win-win results; innovate perspectives to form strategic alliances; overcome pressure to maintain invincibility; engage in cross-border cooperation to avoid cultural pitfalls.