Negotiating the Impossible, Second Ed..., Deepak Malhotra
Negotiating the Impossible, Second Ed..., Deepak Malhotra
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Negotiating the Impossible, Second Edition
How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

Author: Deepak Malhotra

Narrator: John Patrick Walsh

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/10/2025


Synopsis

An award-winning professor from Harvard Business School offers a new and improved edition of his guide to navigating negotiation deadlock, while offering practical advice and stories of success. Updated with 20% new material, including a brand-new chapter and discussion guide.

Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible in this fully expanded upon second edition.

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of the US Constitution, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the odds in complex business situations. He also shows how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether in a job interview or even negotiating with children. Brand new to this edition is a chapter on challenges facing today's world, including how to effectively negotiate in virtual spaces, incorporate AI in your toolkit, and tackle increased polarization.

About Deepak Malhotra

Deepak Malhotra is the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches negotiation in the MBA program and in a wide variety of executive education programs. He has been published in top journals in the fields of management, psychology, conflict resolution, and foreign policy, and he has won numerous awards for both his teaching and his research. He does training and consulting work for firms across the globe and advises governments that are seeking to end armed conflicts. He is coauthor of Negotiation Genius and the author of I Moved Your Cheese.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tigran on October 09, 2016

I’ve bought this book per recommendation of my Harvard friends in HBS campus, who were impressed by the professor Deepak course on Negotiations. The book is really fantastic. I read it in a couple of weeks, but was analyzing for more than a month... The theme of negotiations is one of my favorites so......more

Goodreads review by Katie on November 26, 2021

This one was okay. I am often skeptical of books about business — they end up reading like a mash-up of anecdotes without any repeatable strategies of how to think or first principles of how to approach conflict. Some chapters were helpful to me: Chapter two about the power of framing / constructing......more

Goodreads review by Ali on July 29, 2018

There are a few books with great tactical advise for you to take away for your daily life. It could be either for your own personal relationships to business dealings. Highly recommend this book for everyone to read. This book shows that there is more to negotiation that muscle and money. It show ca......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 20, 2016

I tend to take the same approach to negotiation that Bruce Willis did in The Fifth Element. Not to surprise anybody, but it hasn't worked very well. So when I saw a short article by the author exploring how to build an exit ramp for Trump supporters after the 2016 election, I figured that I should r......more

Goodreads review by Terry on December 26, 2020

Is this the only book on negotiation you need to read? No. First book you should read? No. Will it change my life? Maybe not. This is, however a good bunch of principles and examples for negotiation. I would also recommend “negotiation Genius” also co-authored by Deepak. I would recommend reading Negoti......more