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The Three Schools of Negotiation.

The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.

A 7-day path. Twelve to fifteen minutes a day.

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The premise

Three rooms, one question.

Most people learn negotiation from one book and assume it's the answer. There are three modern voices — Chris Voss, Roger Fisher and William Ury, Stuart Diamond — who each built a school. They agree on where most people go wrong. They disagree, sometimes sharply, on what to do instead. This path puts them in conversation across seven days, so you finish with three working models, and the judgment to pick the right one for the room you walk into.

Day 1, free

Three first moves.

Day 1 opens in a Brooklyn bank with Chris Voss on the phone, and asks what Fisher, Ury, or Diamond would have done instead. Three negotiators, three first moves, all of them demonstrably effective. The rest of the path is about which to reach for, when.

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The 7-day arc

Three schools, seven days, one synthesis.

01
Three rooms, one question.
Why three schools exist, and how to read the rest of the path.
12 min
02
The room before the room.
Voss on tactical empathy, mirroring, and labeling.
15 min
03
Calibrated questions and that's right.
The question architecture, and the moment of real agreement.
15 min
04
Separating the people from the problem.
Fisher and Ury — soft on people, hard on problem, interests under positions.
15 min
05
BATNA, options, objective criteria.
The structural moves that turn the Harvard stance into a method.
15 min
06
What's in their head.
Diamond on the perception-first school and the relational arc.
15 min
07
When to use which.
The integrated negotiator — what the three schools agree on, and how to read the room.
15 min
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