Book: No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home
Author: Jim Camp
Genre:
- #458 in Business Negotiating
- #2,253 in Interpersonal Relations
Subject/Description:
Jim Camp, the world’s #1 negotiating coach, shows how to release the emotional pressure that’s part of any negotiation by using his proven system of safe, decision-based negotiation that enables you to meet all your objectives without needless, wasted compromises or giveaways.
• Out of the blue your best customer demands a huge discount—or else he takes his business elsewhere.
• You think you finally have a buyer for your home, but then at the last minute she demands that you pay for new landscaping of the yard—or no deal. There are plenty of other properties for sale, and she says she’ll walk.
• Your son is having trouble in school, and you have to think about how to deal with his “my way or the highway” teacher.
When confronted with these—and innumerable other—day-to-day negotiating challenges at work and in your personal life, most people start to guess about how much they should give up in compromise to make the other side happy (“I’ll just meet them halfway, and we can put this problem to bed”).
Jim Camp has a better way for you to negotiate:
NO.
Saying “no” is not about being hard-nosed or intransigent. Rather, it stops everyone in their tracks, clears the air, and allows you to get at what the real issues are. It is a proven and an amazingly effective system that avoids unwarranted assumptions, needless compromises, and wild guesses, showing:
• How to stop being needy, banishing emotional responses such as “I must keep this customer’s business” or “I have to sell this house now,” and start focusing on what you can control—yourself
• Why in a negotiation the two worst things to hear are “yes” and “maybe”
• How to get to the heart of the issue through the art and science of asking great questions
• How to find out who the real “decider” is and stop negotiating with the unqualified
We live in a compromise- and assumption-based world, but Jim Camp flips conventional wisdom on its head and in the process makes you a more effective negotiator with clients, customers, spouses, kids, neighbors, and coworkers. Through Camp’s system you’ll find that “no” is just the start of the negotiation, not the end of it. With it, you’ll get everything you want and you’ll build solid relationships with those you negotiate with.
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My input:
Easily one of the most profoundly useful communication books I've ever put to use in my life.
It's Jim Camp's LAST book (he never put it in Kindle format) and gave me the core foundational structure on how to negotiate bigger fee deals without need or trying to convince or power close anyone.
Side note: Did you know Jim Camp had a huge influential impact on real life hostage negotiator Chris Voss, author of another excellent book, "
Never Split The Difference" (not sure this one meets the criteria of this thread).
It gives you a framework and... it's just so freakin' good.
I feel like if more people read this the entire world would simply be a better place.
aul Kalinathi
