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The Three Schools of Negotiation

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7 days 12–15 min/day Audio-first Negotiation · In progress
Narrated by CatalystAudio-first, on the schedule you actually have
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.

Day 1 of any path is free in the app.

Three schools, seven days, one synthesis.

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

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Day 1 · 12 min
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