This book provides practical information and negotiation tools to help policy-makers create better international health agreements and programs. It demonstrates how complex issues and stakeholder groups can be brought into alignment using sophisticated approaches to negotiation and consensus building. Case studies and practical examples make the book's lessons clear and explicit.
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In this book, negotiation experts Hal Movius and Lawrence Susskind argue that companies waste millions by investing only in off-the-shelf negotiation training for their employees, without addressing organizational barriers to deploying best practices. This groundbreaking book lays out a more holistic—and less expensive—strategy, one that charges leaders with making negotiation a core organizational competence.
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A Didactic Case Study of Jarash Archaeological Site, Jordan: Stakeholders and Heritage Values in Site Management, based on the archaeological site of Jarash, Jordan, is designed to help heritage professionals recognize the importance of stakeholders and their values to effective site management, and to teach them skills for identifying stakeholders, eliciting their values and interests, and integrating these into management decision-making.
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In this book, Lawrence Susskind and Patrick Field analyze scores of both private and public-sector cases, as well as crises scenarios. They show how resistance to both public and private initiatives can be overcome by a mutual gains approach involving face-to-face negotiation, a strategy applied successfully by over fifteen hundred executives and officials who have attended Professor Susskind's MIT-Harvard "Angry Public" seminars.
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The much-publicized divide between the U.S. and the Muslim world is not as deep or irreconcilable as many believe. Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World presents the first senior, bipartisan and interfaith U.S. leadership consensus on a comprehensive approach to improving U.S.-Muslim relations.
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The Consensus Building Handbook presents a winning alternative to top-down decision making and a blueprint to help make the process work in your organization. The book includes a practical, quick-reference guide and seventeen case studies with in-depth commentaries to provide the theoretical basis for the consensus building approach.
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Decisions made by "majority rule" are inherently unstable and usually produce less than optimal results. There is another way to run meetings, build consensus, and get results. In Breaking Robert's Rules, Lawrence Susskind and his co-author Jeffrey Cruikshank clearly spell out how any group can work together effectively.








