The Contract Negotiation Handbook

The Contract Negotiation Handbook
Author: Stephen Guth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1435706390

Many books have been written on negotiation tactics and a few books have been written on contract drafting, but no book has combined the two disciplines into one-until now. Resulting from over 10 years of actual negotiation experience as both buyer and seller, author Stephen Guth offers insight into a world of negotiations and contracts that few ever see. This book isn't a feel-good book on win-win negotiations. It's an insider's view into real life negotiation tactics and ploys. Readers will learn how to use negotiation tactics such as the Columbo, the Price Slice and Dice, and the Signature Limit Lasso. Readers will also learn how to spot and counter vendor ploys such as the Pop-Tart, Mirroring, and the Only Game in Town. To put it all together, readers are instructed on contract drafting tricks such as Expressly Implied Warranties, the Endless Indemnification, and the Unlimited Limitation of Liability. Readers will never look at contracts the same way again.

Handbook of Security Contract Negotiation

Handbook of Security Contract Negotiation
Author: Tatiana Outkina
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1525585703

Negotiating and understanding the nuance of IT threats and solutions is critical to all businesses, and professionals often need guidance when detailing IT security in contract negotiation. This handbook offers quicker and easier negotiation strategies for both buyers and sellers, and offers comprehensive insights into many issues as well as suggestions for resolutions. The business world is made of relationships between companies and their outside partners, such as suppliers, vendors, and customers. From a security perspective, these partnerships are not under the full control of any participant. Security strength is dependent on mutually-agreed upon solutions defined and provisioned in the contract language. The problem is how to ensure that these requirements are simultaneously mutually acceptable and thorough, delivering required protection to each partner. Every business wants to lower the cost of contract negotiation, and ensure a comprehensive agreement. This handbook is a guide to contract preparation, and is packed with wisdom only gained through extensive field experience and long-term work with the analysis of contradictions in security requirements.

Negotiating a Labor Contract

Negotiating a Labor Contract
Author: Charles S. Loughran
Publisher: BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Labor negotiation is like no other negotiation. This book tells you how to plan your strategy, approach difficult topics, and conclude successfully. In step-by-step chapters, the author tells you how to prepare the management team, present your agenda, cost out demands and offers, draft contract language, and more. You get important background facts on negotiating health and welfare benefits, pension plans, and other volatile issues. Plus, the book includes successful approaches for negotiating joint union-management programs such as stock-option plans and gainsharing. The author explains the law with real-life examples to guide you to a cooperative, mutually beneficial agreement.

Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts

Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts
Author: Kit Werremeyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2023-07-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1394150202

Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts The complexities of construction contracts are made easy with this thorough and readable guide Construction contracts can be complex for both owners and contractors. For contractors, negotiating fair and balanced commercial terms in contracts is just as important as properly managing projects; a properly negotiated contract can mitigate unnecessary risk and unnecessary risk transfer. This, in turn, reduces exposure to financial liability for the contractor and for avoidance of contract claims and disputes. Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to the world of construction contracts. Providing, for example, coverage of the four most common types of contracts—lump sum/fixed-price, cost-plus, time-and-materials, and unit-pricing—it promises to reduce uncertainty and allow contractors to enter contractual negotiations with greater confidence to be able to achieve a fair and balanced contract. This updated new edition reflects the up-to-date best practices to understand how to better negotiate the commercial terms and conditions in construction contracts. Readers of the second edition of Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts will also find: Updated information on indemnity, insurance, and negotiation An all-new chapter with a contract analysis checklist Real-world examples drawn from small residential, retail, large commercial, and international projects Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts is essential for construction professionals and college students studying construction contracts and the liabilities arising out of them.

Hotel Contract Negotiation Tips, Tricks, and Traps

Hotel Contract Negotiation Tips, Tricks, and Traps
Author: Stephen Guth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1458350339

An Insider's Guide to Hotel Contract Negotiations Stephen Guth's latest book provides a unique insider's perspective on the high-stakes complexities of hotel contract negotiations. Covering topics from attrition to force majeure to walked guests, "Hotel Contract Negotiation Tips, Tricks, and Traps" dissects contract provisions with easy-to-understand explanations and alternate language to counter hotel negotiation ploys. Based on years of real-life experience, the practical negotiation tactics described in this book could save you tens of thousands of dollars on your next meeting and could protect you from being hit with even more in liquidated damages. Whether you are a meeting planner, ten-percenter, or just someone who is looking to get a great deal for your next group meeting, this book has something for you. Don't negotiate your next hotel deal without it!

The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture

The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture
Author: Michele J. Gelfand
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804745862

In the global marketplace, negotiation frequently takes place across cultural boundaries, yet negotiation theory has traditionally been grounded in Western culture. This book, which provides an in-depth review of the field of negotiation theory, expands current thinking to include cross-cultural perspectives. The contents of the book reflect the diversity of negotiation—research-negotiator cognition, motivation, emotion, communication, power and disputing, intergroup relationships, third parties, justice, technology, and social dilemmas—and provides new insight into negotiation theory, questioning assumptions, expanding constructs, and identifying limits not apparent from working exclusively within one culture. The book is organized in three sections and pairs chapters on negotiation theory with chapters on culture. The first part emphasizes psychological processes—cognition, motivation, and emotion. Part II examines the negotiation process. The third part emphasizes the social context of negotiation. A final chapter synthesizes the main themes of the book to illustrate how scholars and practitioners can capitalize on the synergy between culture and negotiation research.

The Essentials of Contract Negotiation

The Essentials of Contract Negotiation
Author: Stefanie Jung
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-06-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030128660

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations. In addition to outlining general negotiation concepts, techniques and tools, it provides insight into relevant framework conditions, underlying mechanisms and also presents generally occurring terms and problems. Moreover, different negotiating styles are illustrated using an exemplary presentation of negotiation peculiarities in China, the USA and Germany. The presented tactics and strategies combine interdisciplinary psychological and economic knowledge as well as findings from the field of communication science. The application scope of these tactics and strategies covers business-to-business negotiations as well as company-internal negotiations. The fact that this book does not necessarily stipulate any prior knowledge of the subject of negotiations also makes it highly suitable for nonprofessionals with a pronounced interested in negotiations. Nonetheless, it provides proficient negotiators with a deeper understanding for situations experienced in negotiations. This book also helps practioners to identify underlying mechanisms and on this basis sustainably improve their negotiation skills.

The Negotiation Book

The Negotiation Book
Author: Steve Gates
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119155525

Winner! - CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 – Practical Manager category Master the art of negotiation and gain the competitive advantage Now revised and updated, the second edition of The Negotiation Book will teach you about one of the most important skills in business. We all have to negotiate at some point; whether in the office or at home and good negotiation skills can have a profound effect on our lives – both financially and personally. No other skill will give you a better chance of optimizing your success and your organization's success. Every time you negotiate, you are looking for an increased advantage. This book delivers it, whilst ensuring the other party also comes away feeling good about the deal. Nothing will put you in a stronger position to build capacity, build negotiation strategies and facilitate negotiations through to successful conclusions. The Negotiation Book: Explains the importance of planning, dynamics and strategies Will help you understand the psychology, tactics and behaviours of negotiation Teaches you how to conduct successful win-win negotiations Gives you the competitive advantage

Contract Negotiation Handbook

Contract Negotiation Handbook
Author: Damian Ward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118319257

A good commercial contract is both a springboard and a safety net -- it provides the opportunity to expand and grow your business, but also to protect it if things go wrong. In a tough commercial world, getting the best deal you can is paramount. The Contract Negotiation Handbook demystifies complex legal principles so that busy businesspeople can quickly and easily digest them. With clear, practical examples and case studies to help illustrate and explain different types of contracts and contractual situations, this comprehensive handbook will help you: prepare for negotiations and identify contractual terms make sure you have covered the ‘springboard and the safety net' -- combining the appealing and less appealing aspects of contracts identify the type of negotiator that your counter party is and how that affects your negotiations develop an overview of contract law devise a negotiation strategy identify whether you are in a contractual dispute prepare for and acquire the best result out of any contractual dispute.