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Negotiation Genius: Claiming Value, Creating Value and Beating Bias — A Complete Practitioner Guide

An extremely detailed synthesis of Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman’s Negotiation Genius—claiming and creating value, investigative negotiation, mind and heart biases, influence, blind spots, lies, ethics, weakness, ugly talks, when not to negotiate, and the path to genius—for consulting, AI pursuit and commercial work.

AI Playbook2026-08-0145 min readintroductory

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An extremely detailed synthesis of Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman’s Negotiation Genius—claiming and creating value, investigative negotiation, mind and heart biases, influence, blind spots, lies, ethics, weakness, ugly talks, when not to negotiate, and the path to genius—for consulting, AI pursuit and commercial work.

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