Author of best-selling book ‘Getting to Yes’ and co-founder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, William Ury discusses the skills it takes to negotiate well. Whether making common life decisions or leading through turbulent circumstances, negotiation is a central skill to having influence.
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Co-Founder and Senior Fellow for Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation. A negotiator and mediator, with 30 years practical experience in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to ethnic wars in the Middle East. A social anthropologist and teacher, he is the author of award-winning business books, including Getting to Yes, an eight million copy best seller. Co-founder of the International Negotiation Network with President Jimmy Carter, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars. We all face conflict. It’s part of leadership. He will unpack practical steps we can take to resolve it and how to move forward from it.
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William Ury
Co-Founder, Author, academic, anthropologist and negotiation expert | Harvard Program on NegotiationGetting to Yes: Negotiating Conflict
Published May 12, 2015TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO
Conflict ManagementLeading OthersAuthor of best-selling book ‘Getting to Yes’ and co-founder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, William Ury discusses the skills it takes to negotiate well. Whether making common life decisions or leading through turbulent circumstances, negotiation is a central skill to having influence.
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William Ury
Co-Founder, Author, academic, anthropologist and negotiation expertHarvard Program on Negotiation
Co-Founder and Senior Fellow for Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation. A negotiator and mediator, with 30 years practical experience in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to ethnic wars in the Middle East. A social anthropologist and teacher, he is the author of award-winning business books, including Getting to Yes, an eight million copy best seller. Co-founder of the International Negotiation Network with President Jimmy Carter, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars. We all face conflict. It’s part of leadership. He will unpack practical steps we can take to resolve it and how to move forward from it.
Years at GLS 2012