ABSTRACT

Persuasion: The Hidden Forces That Influence Negotiations represents the first book of its kind to package and present persuasion principles in an innovative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.

This easy-to-understand book is the culmination of seminal research findings spanning across decades and disciplines – psychology, philosophy, negotiations, decision-making, logic, law, and economics, among others – from esteemed experts around the world. Persuasion provides a series of short, simple-to-use intellectual tools to go above and beyond merely describing "what to think"– but "how to think" in a persuasion, influence, and negotiation context –across a diverse array of disciplines, sectors, and situations from boardrooms to classrooms for the twenty-first century.

part I|44 pages

Behavioralists

chapter 1|10 pages

Influences

Invisible influences of persuasion

chapter 2|10 pages

Judgments

Surprising shortcuts toward judgments

chapter 3|10 pages

Biases

The blind side of hidden biases

chapter 4|12 pages

Perceptions

How perceptions bend realities

part II|49 pages

Rationalists

chapter 5|11 pages

Strategies

Knowing when to keep calm and carry on

chapter 6|21 pages

Expectations

How to value great expectations

chapter 7|9 pages

Elements

Creative ways to supersize the pie

chapter 8|6 pages

Reasonings

Making sense of nonsensical statements