I have been reading Bruce E. Barnes’ Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific and found it unbelievably helpful as one who has been working in Asian contexts for the last decade…
Tag: Book Review
Quick Review: Ask More
I read Frank Sesno’s Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change. It was published in early 2017 and I’ve been going through several books that deal with…
Quick Review: Conflict Coaching
I’ve been working through the textbook Conflict Coaching: Conflict Management Strategies and Skills for the Individual by Tricia S. Jones and Ross Brinkert over the past few weeks. It was written about 15 years ago…
Quick Review: Negotiation (An Ex-Spy’s Guide Series)
So as I’m researching and reading the topic of Negotiation in a lot of contexts I decided to add this book to my reading more for fun. It’s a short, 100-page crash…
Quick Review: Negotiating the Non-Negotiable
The best of the negotiation books I’ve read this year has been Daniel Shapiro’s Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. Shapiro heads the Harvard International Negotiation Program and was…
Quick Review: Beyond Reason
Another help Negotiation book I’ve gone through in the last few weeks is Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro’s Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate. This isn’t the most dynamic of books content-wise,…
Quick Review: Getting Past No
Another negotiating book I read recently is William Ury’s Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations. This is an extension of Getting to Yes, but it focuses on an arena that Getting to Yes…
Quick Review: The 3 Big Questions For A Frantic Family
I read Patrick Lencioni’s The 3 Big Questions For a Frantic Family over the past couple of months in different sittings. In short – it’s a strategic planning book for families, which sounds horrible…
Quick Review: Thinking Fast and Slow
This year I worked through Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and this is a book that has won all sorts of…