New Business Book Summary Available for Good for You, Great for Me

Many executives do not want to just reach win-win negotiations--they want to win at win-win negotiations. In Good for You, Great for Me, Lawrence Susskind taps into his years of experience as a negotiation and mediation expert to demonstrate how negotiators can land better deals with less resistance from their negotiating counterparts. To this end, Susskind provides six negotiation principles and ancillary strategies that negotiators can implement to gain an edge in mutually advantageous negotiations.

New Business Book Summary Available for Hardball

In Hardball, George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer explain that playing hardball in business means always playing to win. Businesses must exploit every legal means available to gain and use competitive advantages to acquire market share, build decisive advantages, and make permanent changes to their industries. Playing hardball is a mindset, but it also means following a set of guidelines for what to do--and what not to do--to stay in the game and win.

Negotiating Success

Negotiations occur in every aspect of our lives. Often people view negotiations as win-lose situations. However, it does not have to be that way. In Negotiating Success, Jim Hornickel suggests that “mutuality” is an effective way of approaching negotiations with the ultimate goal of having both sides win. He outlines techniques that can be used to build rapport with negotiating partners and reach the best possible outcome.

I Hear You

In I Hear You, Donny Ebenstein presents a blueprint for business professionals that outlines how they can learn how to communicate in a kind and constructive manner that helps to get things done. By showing people how to alter established mental patterns, Ebenstein sets the stage for business professionals at all stages of their careers to become better at the difficult conversations that can cause conflict in the workplace. He teaches people how to shift perspective, overcome their own defenses, and make important changes happen in the workplace.