“Or you read Getting to Yes, and it's like what what you need is a strong BATNA and a good ZOPA”
Getting to Yes
By Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
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“find the most popular sales books like getting to yes that everyone reads and just read those”
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