Getting to YES

Getting to YES  
Author(s) Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
Genre(s) non-fiction
Publisher Penguin Group
Publication date 1981
Pages 200
ISBN 9780140157352
OCLC Number 24318769
Dewey Decimal 158/.5 20
LC Classification BF637.N4 F57 1991

Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Reissued in 1991 with additional authorship credit to Bruce Patton, the book made appearances for years on Business Week's "Best Seller" list. The book suggests a method called "principled negotiation or negotiation of merits."

Contents

Background

Members of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher and Ury focused on the psychology of negotiation in their method, "principled negotiations", finding acceptable compromise by determining which needs are fixed and which are flexible for negotiators.[1] By 1987, the book had been adopted in several US school districts to help students understand "non-adversarial bargaining".[2] In 1991, the book was issued in a second edition with Bruce Patton, an editor of the first edition, listed as a co-author. The book became a perennial best-seller. By July 1998, it had been appearing for more than three years on Business Week's "Best-Seller" book list.[3] As of December 2007, it was still making appearances on the list as one of the "Longest Running Best Sellers" in paperback business books.[4]

Method

The method of principled negotiation is based on four propositions:

See also

References

  1. ^ Morrow, Lance (Monday, Dec. 07, 1981). "The Dance of Negotiation". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953270-1,00.html. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  2. ^ Piele, Philip K.; Stuart C. Smith (May 12, 1987). "Alternatives To adversarial negotiations being used successfully". Eugene Register-Guard. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_sQUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fuEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4151,3089660&dq=getting-to-yes+fisher. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  3. ^ "The Business Week Best-Seller List". Business Week. July 6, 1998. http://www.businessweek.com/1998/27/b3585036.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  4. ^ "The Business Week Best Seller List". Business Week. December 3, 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_49/b4061103.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  5. ^ Fisher, R., Ury, W. and Patton, B. (1991). Getting to Yes: negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Second Edition. New York: Penguin Books.

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