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You Can Negotiate Anything

Disciplines:
saas/sales
nutrition/negotiation
herb cohen

Summary

Herb Cohen's 1980 classic arguing that everything in life is negotiable — covering information, time, power, and the two primary styles of negotiation (Soviet/win-lose vs. win-win) — one of the best-selling negotiation books ever written.

Core Contribution

Popularizes the win-win negotiation philosophy for a mass audience — Cohen's practical approach (care, but not too much; understand the other side's needs; create value through information and time) brought sophisticated negotiation theory to general readers.

Historical Influences

Herb Cohen

Intellectual Lineage

Herb Cohen Lyle Stuart

Allied Works

Getting to YesNever Split the Difference

Contemporaries & Peers

Getting to YesNever Split the Difference

Minds Influenced

Negotiation literature Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

You Can Negotiate Anything

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