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Negotiation

An annotated collection of 2 books on negotiation, spanning 1981 to 2016. Featuring works by Roger Fisher & William Ury, Chris Voss & Tahl Raz — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Roger Fisher & William Ury, 1981 · Houghton Mifflin (3rd edition with Bruce Patton, 2011)

Fisher and Ury's book introduced principled negotiation: separate people from the problem, focus on interests rather than positions, generate options for mutual gain, insist on objective criteria. The method is now stand…

Voss was the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, and the book is his account of the techniques he developed applied to ordinary negotiation — mirroring, labelling, calibrated questions, tactical empathy. The…