CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE—THE BASICS

CHAPTER ONE

Why Aren’t You Negotiating?

The Choice to Negotiate

CHAPTER TWO

Creating Common Ground

The Infrastructure of Negotiation

CHAPTER THREE

Creating and Claiming Value

The Value of the Exchange

CHAPTER FOUR

Value Creating

The Integrative Potential in Negotiations

CHAPTER FIVE

Mapping Out the Negotiation

What You Don’t Know Can REALLY Hurt You

CHAPTER SIX

It Takes at Least Two to Tango

Thinking Strategically in Negotiation

PART TWO—THE NEGOTIATION

CHAPTER SEVEN

Who Should Make the First Offer?

Is S(he) Who Speaks First Truly Lost?

CHAPTER EIGHT

Managing the Negotiation

Supplementing and Verifying What You (Think You) Know

CHAPTER NINE

Concede or Else!

The Influence of Promises and Threats

CHAPTER TEN

Should You Let Them See You Sweat (or Cry)?

Emotions in Negotiation

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Power

Having It—or Not—and Getting More

CHAPTER TWELVE

Multiparty Negotiations

The More the Merrier?

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Auctions

Lots More than Two

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Bringing It Home

Making the Deal Real

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

INDEX