Shaping the Game

Shaping the Game

by Michael Watkins
Released July 2006
Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 9781633691155

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Book description

Michael D. Watkins' best-selling book The First 90 Days has become the business bible for accelerating leadership transitions. Now, Watkins zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions: negotiation. In Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating, Watkins draws from extensive research and practical consulting work to reveal four fundamental objectives that should guide new leaders' actions in every negotiation they undertake: create the most possible value, capture that value for yourself and your company, carefully tend to key relationships, and preserve your reputation. Watkins lays out hands-on strategies for becoming a world-class negotiator, including how to match your negotiation strategy to the situation, influence the perspectives of key counterparts, shape negotiation outcomes in your favor, and create the learning discipline necessary to become a world-class negotiator. Navigating the myriad complex, high-stakes negotiating challenges that confront new leaders, this book provides all the tools readers need to make the right moves up the career ladder—and succeed in those roles once they get there.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction (1/3)
  5. Introduction (2/3)
  6. Introduction (3/3)
  7. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (1/6)
  8. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (2/6)
  9. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (3/6)
  10. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (4/6)
  11. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (5/6)
  12. Chapter 1: Understand Terms and Conditions (6/6)
  13. Chapter 2: Negotiate Strategically (1/3)
  14. Chapter 2: Negotiate Strategically (2/3)
  15. Chapter 2: Negotiate Strategically (3/3)
  16. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (1/8)
  17. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (2/8)
  18. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (3/8)
  19. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (4/8)
  20. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (5/8)
  21. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (6/8)
  22. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (7/8)
  23. Chapter 3: Match Strategy to Situation (8/8)
  24. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (1/6)
  25. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (2/6)
  26. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (3/6)
  27. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (4/6)
  28. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (5/6)
  29. Chapter 4: Plan to Learn and Influence (6/6)
  30. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (1/6)
  31. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (2/6)
  32. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (3/6)
  33. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (4/6)
  34. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (5/6)
  35. Chapter 5: Shaping the Game (6/6)
  36. Chapter 6: Organize to Improve (1/5)
  37. Chapter 6: Organize to Improve (2/5)
  38. Chapter 6: Organize to Improve (3/5)
  39. Chapter 6: Organize to Improve (4/5)
  40. Chapter 6: Organize to Improve (5/5)
  41. Conclusion
  42. Notes (1/2)
  43. Notes (2/2)
  44. Recommended Reading
  45. Index (1/2)
  46. Index (2/2)
  47. About the Author

Product information

  • Title: Shaping the Game
  • Author(s): Michael Watkins
  • Release date: July 2006
  • Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781633691155