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The New Negotiating Edge Gavin Kennedy

The New Negotiating Edge By Gavin Kennedy

The New Negotiating Edge by Gavin Kennedy


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Gavin Kennedy aims to go beyond tough guy tactics to reveal how people actually negotiate. This text is not about what people ought to do, rationally or otherwise - it is about how people really behave and what you can do about it.

The New Negotiating Edge Summary

The New Negotiating Edge: The Behavioural Approach for Results and Relationships by Gavin Kennedy

Gavin Kennedy aims to go beyond tough guy tactics to reveal how people actually negotiate. This text is not about what people ought to do, rationally or otherwise - it is about how people really behave and what you can do about it.

His thesis is that the two usual modes of negotiating behaviour should be blended. The red style is the use of manipulative tactics and agressive ploys, whilst the blue style is the antidote to this, suggesting the use of principled negotiation and rational problem solving prescriptions. Kennedy presents his purple style, which says: give me some of what I want (red style) and I will give you some of what you want (Blue style). Red is taking behaviour, blue is giving behaviour, and purple is trading behaviour. Purple behaviour deals with people as they are, and not how you assume them to be. It is biased towards how negotiators behave and prefers the evidence of their behaviour to affirmations of their good intentions, but it is not a rationale for cynicism.

The author sets-out a simplified, 4-phase process of this theory: prepare; debate; propose; and bargain.

About Gavin Kennedy

Gavin Kennedy has authored various books on negotiation, which have been translated into numerous languages. He is a professor at Edinburgh Business School and managing director of Negotiate Limited, a training and consulting firm.

Additional information

GOR001211575
9781857882056
1857882059
The New Negotiating Edge: The Behavioural Approach for Results and Relationships by Gavin Kennedy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Murray Press
19980319
288
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