Our world, now more than ever, needs the power of collaboration and connection. "Bring Yourself: How to Negotiate Fearlessly" teaches how to harness the power of connection, turn conflict into collaboration, and find your voice. In the introduction, author @mtaheripour subheadings include "Negotiation is first and foremost about human connection,""Negotiation requires knowing your worth," "Negotiation is something we do all the time," and "Anyone can be a good negotiator." The author is a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches Negotiations and Dispute Resolution. She weaves stories from her students and her own experience with data and research into a compelling book about a skill we all need! And she quotes The Office so I immediately liked her. 😉
"In the way that I view negotiation, coming to an agreement with your counterpart is an important step, but it's not the end of the ex-change. Because once you've done the work together to come to a mutual solution, you have-first of all--a doorway to other mutual solutions in the future. You have a relationship, shared equity, and a shared vision. Every conversation thereafter is easier, because there is trust. From this vantage, you can then say, "Let's take a step back. Can we do even better than this deal?" And from there, you get beyond just yes."