Beyond Machiavelli : Tools for Coping With Conflict

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Beyond Machiavelli : Tools for Coping With Conflict
by Roger Fisher, Elizabeth Kopelman, Andrea Kupfer Schneider
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Focusing on Conflict Resolution as a Process
  This book is a fine contribution, but does not stand alone and is in some respects incomplete.
  It emerges from Harvard's Negotiation Project. If focuses on conflict resolution as a process that requires a checklist, an analytic toolkit, and an action plan.
  The comment that got me past being a skeptic of this academic work:
  "International relations should not be a spectator sport." The authors are right: IR is about your life and the future of all generations. Prior to 911 Senators and... more info

• Help for us in everyday conflict
  At fewer than 150 pages, Beyond Machiavelli packs in enough ideas and advice to keep you busy for months to come. Fisher et. al. offer insights on how to better understand the people we are in conflict with. Also, Beyond Machiavelli shows us how to be able to influence people we disagree with, and how to legitimately analyze the situation to move towards problem solving. Regardless of what system or social structure you are in, there are ample skills that can be applied to face a multitude of situation.... more info

• The negotiaton explained
  Very decent book, with loads of good cases. It helps you understand the other side's position and options, and guides you to 'reasonable' negotiation.

• Conquering Conflict
  How many times we have been in a conflict with others may it be of a personal or business in nature. I find this text extremely useful in punctuating the loopholes and pitfalls to avoid in a conflict and means to manage it. When in a conflict we are always trying to send a message to the other party suggesting them that there is something else they should be doing. The text will help in the appropriate way to transfer this message across.

  To identify the root cause of a conflict Fisher suggests that one... more info

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