7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book easy and fun to read, 3 Dec 2006
By L. Lerner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Negotiate to Win: The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating (Hardcover)
Unlike Herb Cohen's book "Negotiate This" Negotiate to Win: The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating will teach tricks of the trade from page one. This book will lay out how to start the negotiation, how to react to first offers, how to get to a great postion to counteroffer, and finally how to realize when someone is at the bottom line. It is easy to understand and fun to read. The tips and the practices can be used in real life scenarios from day one and incorporated into negotiations immediately, even with no practice. The rules will help in every scenario and show how the other side may react to concessions, counteroffers, nibbles and krunches. I highly recommend this book to anyone it is the best book on negiations I have read.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very handy and usable guide to negotiating, 3 Sep 2006
By Jeffrey Leeper "kem2070" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Negotiate to Win: 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating (Hardcover)
Many of the tips in the book sound familiar from the other books on negotiating I've read. However, the author here does a good job in making a very readable guide as well as does a good job in explaining why the tip works. He also highlights particular pitfalls that await the unwary.
The author mentions early on that he is trying to add some humor into the work and apologizes, in advance, if we find it offensive. Nothing really stood out as offensive, but some jokes don't seem to fit with the principle he was explaining.
The tips are easy to remember, but as with all skills, the reader needs to practice these. The book is more than clear in explaining what and how to do it. I plan on using some of these myself.
The author points out that the bottom line is sometimes the bottom line. I never really thought about this, but it fits with the notion of win-win negotiating. We have to remember that most of our negotiations have an ongoing relationship component.
The back provides some tips on negotiating for a car or home. These are the most common negotiations we get into.
I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to brush up their negotiating skills. This is a skill that will help you at work or at home.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read, 3 Dec 2005
By Vipin Tiwari "a reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Negotiate to Win: 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating (Hardcover)
It's a great book, very easy read and full of examples.
First of all it's a very structured book and the "rules of negotiations" have been divided into "critical", "important but obvious" and "nice to have" rules so it makes it easier to understand the importance of each rule.
The thing I like the most about this book is that it puts lot of of emphasis on a very important part of most of the negotiations, "saving other side's face" which means that negotiations should mostly be a "win-win" situation.