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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Brilliance Audio; Library edition (October 8, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1480553344
  • ISBN-13: 978-1480553347
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 1 x 6.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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Format: Hardcover
The PON publicity machine has really fired up for Professor Wheeler, as it always does for one of its own but rarely for anyone else. (There is a lot of competition for big bucks from executive programs and negotiation consulting.) The result this time is a host of exaggerated and sometimes cloying claims to revolutionary ideas, great writing and excellent scholarship. The marketing hype led me to expect more than I got, but my overall impression is that this is a good book with significant flaws.

Wheeler comes over as an American business professor writing for Americans while proffering universal truths about negotiation. I guess his main market is in the US but he seems to assume 95 percent of the world’s negotiation exemplars are American, which is not convincing. I do know several expert American practitioners. However, in the various parts of the world with which I am familiar, Americans tend to be seen as under-skilled negotiators. The book has some international content but it almost always involves American success stories, including the adoring account of Richard Holbrooke’s “playful” solution to the Serbian-Bosnian dispute about car license plates. (Was it really Holbrooke’s idea?) Too many writers overestimate the influence of culture on negotiation but it does deserve more than the two token mentions in this book. The admirable UN envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, is the only non-American to get significant coverage but we are not even told he is Algerian, let alone whether or not there is anything in his cultural background that might work in his favor as a crisis negotiator. The author prescribes eye contact as a universal rule for negotiators, which is but one bit of evidence that betrays his failure to explore beyond Euro-American society.
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This book covers a lot more ground than pure "negotiation". Any one who deals with other people in one way or another can get something out of the concepts of interpersonal relationships that are depicted. The examples come from the world of business, sports, and entertainment. In addition, the author provides very useful summaries at the end of each chapter.
That said, if this is the first book of its kind that you are tackling, I would recommend starting with the classic book Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury, which is referenced prominently by Dr. Wheeler.
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One cannot read enough about the challenges of negotiation. There are many nuggets of wisdom and experience in this book and it adds to the body of work on the subject. It is not easy to summarize because it lacks a clear structure even though Mr Wheeler tries to present a framework. If you approach this book as a series of insights and academic studies you won't be disappointed if you look for the next "Getting to Yes" or "3 D negotiation" you will be disappointed.
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Format: Hardcover
I've read most of the negotiation books out there, and this is one of the best. The stories are entertaining, the advice is useful, and the writing is engaging and clear. Most importantly, Wheeler makes an important contribution by reminding us that negotiation can be a chaotic, ever-changing enterprise that is best approached with an open mind and an arsenal of improvisation skills. Drawing from disciplines such as jazz, improv comedy, and therapy, Wheeler artfully shows us how to overcome negotiation performance anxiety while at the same time remaining alert and focused. A must-read for anyone who negotiates at home and at work -- which, by the way, is virtually all of us.
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This book by an accomplished Harvard scholar (HBS, PON) is interesting and reads well enough. Its major flaw is that it does not mention other writers who have already presented negotiation, in one case very explicitly, as a continuously dynamic interaction in which success depends on the intelligent, flexible negotiator's ability to improvise as he or she adapts and re-adapts to relentless informational chaos. Negotiation is a non-stop process of exploring and learning. See the review by Dr Andrew Whitehead on this site for convincing detail on the matter of who created the chaos management theory of negotiation, and first formalized the set of traits (e.g. flexibility, opportunism, anticipation, exploratory-diagnostic skills) that make some negotiators better than others at handling chaos and uncertainty. Clearly, there is at least one relevant work that Professor Wheeler should have read and cited.

Regardless of the quality of Professor Wheeler's book, was it vulgar for a highly favorable review to appear in the Harvard PON's prestigious `Negotiation Journal' (October 2013)? Professor Wheeler is the journal editor. The author of the review earned his PhD at Wheeler's home base, Harvard, has taught negotiation at HBS, and from 2008 taught for five years at NYU's Stern Business School. Professor Wheeler is a prominent Stern Speaker. Stern Speakers, which touts this book as the centerpiece of its promotional page for Professor Wheeler, is a commercial agency of the Stern Business School. The review may be fine in itself but it might have been more prudent and persuasive to publish it somewhere other than the "Negotiation Journal". Naturally, we must wonder if Professor Wheeler and his editorial board would have published an unfavorable review. I guess no one would submit such a review to that journal. Someone should give it a try and see what happens.
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