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Beyond Winning : Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes
Beyond Winning Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes Author:Robert H. Mnookin, Scott R. Peppet, Andrew S. Tulumello Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don't settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence... more » in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at negotiation, aimed at helping lawyers turn disputes into deals, and deals into better deals, through practical, tough-minded problem-solving techniques. "The practice of law has become more contentious and competitive, not less. The authors of [Beyond Winning] … advocate that parties [instead] practice 'value creation' (i.e., the attempt to 'enlarge the pie') so that both parties to a negotiation receive bigger returns … The book does an excellent job of breaking down relationships, players, tensions and organizations to lay bare the inner-workings of the actors in a negotiation and the situations they create."« less