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"Have you ever arm-wrestled for chocolates, gamed with the tit-for-tat robot, or booked a session with a negotiation stylist? No? Ever tried to get a toddler to eat their broccoli, been in a conversation where someone repeats themselves over and over, or tried to reason with a person who insists their opinion is indisputable fact? Ever faced a bully? Yes? This book is for you. With plucky prose and arresting content, it offers handy Everyday Super Tips . . . and Girl Scout cookies. Accompanied by a runway fashion show of original art, you might call it the little black dress (or white pantsuit) of negotiation literature. It's as visually splashy as it is enriching. Negotiation happens everywhere every day and it can be anyone's everyday superpower - even through small acts and language. Yet, negotiation is still viewed by the general public as a specialized skill mastered by experts, and one that you either have or you don't (""Negotiation can't be taught. Some people just have the skill and others don't,"" as proclaimed by a high school senior, heading to Brown University to study International Relations, at the author's 2022 Easter dinner table). Women, in particular, still shy away from negotiation scenarios - many are uncomfortable just asking for something, prioritizing so-called politeness over opportunity and success. Well, guess what? Negotiation isn't just for business and boardrooms. Negotiation is sexy. Negotiation is stylish. Negotiation is powerful and accessible to you. Every day. This is not your father's 20th century negotiation tome. This is real everyday negotiation artistry from a woman who lives it every day. For the Forces of Good is for the school teacher, the college student, the parent, the professional dog walker, the nurse, the administrative assistant, the hair stylist. It handily vanquishes the myth that negotiation is some rarified skill for special settings carried out by elite executives or gifted individuals. Far from a dry, tedious text, it's a tasty just-so recipe of expertise and Brene Brown-worthy vulnerability. Lucia shows us all how to layer the cake with equal parts skills building, storytelling, social and historical commentary, and thought experiment. The frosting on this yummy how-to book is how unbashfully it also flexes some intellect, imbuing the reader with that same intellectual prowess. Lucia navigates us up and down, side to side, demonstrating how the pieces all connect - like the cunning video game super heroine unlocking each next level, making us smarter with every turn of every page, all the while sharing her humanity. All of that packaged in a compact super-snack sized. Whether you're the breezy social media surfer to the deep-dive philosophy student, this is for you. Why? Because negotiation isn't just for business. It's everybody's business. As praised by the celebrated ""Godfather of Persuasion,"" Robert Cialdini, this book is INCLUSIVE. The joy Marie Kondo sparked for home organizing Lucia Kanter St. Amour has kindled for everyday negotiation."

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Robert Cialdini, Author of INFLUENCE and PRE-SUASION The word 'Everyday' in this book's title points to a critical but under-recognized feature of highly effective negotiation, its inclusiveness. It isn't limited to any one set of situations, topics, masters or, tellingly, to any one gender. . . . [W]e can all up our game significantly. Joshua Weiss, PhD., Co-Founder, Global Negotiation Institute and Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation A wonderful new book that demonstrates how effective negotiation is indeed a superpower. In fact, I would argue it is the mother of all superpowers! Thomas Wilmer, award-winning NPR podcast producer and on-air host It defies genre . . . You may not emerge quite the same person as when you started - but you will definitely be a more resilient and radiant version of your former self. Kwame Christian, Esq. M.A., Founder and CEO of American Negotiation Institute and host of the #1 negotiation podcast Negotiate Anything A critical missing link in the marketplace of negotiation literature. Inspiring and transformative, while certainly a work of skills building, it has a soul . . . Alia Samad-Salameh, Principal, Global Labor Standards at Amazon I'm loving this! . . . the Super Tips provided are practical and useful in everyday life, which is often a series of negotiations . . . For women and other marginalized groups this is a great guidebook.

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"A VP for UN women USA (San Francisco), practicing attorney, and former law professor turned everyday negotiation superhero, Lucia Kanter St. Amour can to show you how to harness your everyday negotiation superpowers, so you can: land your dream job, get your kids to eat their peas, and be the most powerful person in the room. As author of the most inclusive and comprehensive 21st century negotiation guide, ""For the Forces of Good,"" she knows that negotiation isn't just for business. It's everybody's business.Nicknamed ""She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Tamed"" by the media, Lucia Kanter St. Amour's book ""For the Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation"" shot to #1 Best Seller within 10 days. A VP for UN Women USA (San Francisco), attorney action figure, and named by a UK fashion magazine as a Top Woman Disruptor, Lucia is one of a small handful of women experts & authors on her topic: negotiation.Launched in February 2022, her podcast, Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation, garnered an immediate dedicated following for its inclusive storytelling and social-cultural-historical approach to negotiation as it relates to everyone every day.Practicing law since 1998, ten years of her practice included regular clinical teaching positions in mediation and in negotiation and settlement at both University of California law schools at Berkeley and San Francisco. She has lectured at many prominent law and business schools in the United States and Europe and served for a number of years as an annual competition judge and mediator for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. One of the designers of the pilot mediation program for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's San Francisco regional office in 1996, Lucia has a deep background in mediation and earned her mediation certification from the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation.An unapologetic agent of change, Lucia is also the beloved mother of five boys (three canine and two human) and founder and executive director of Spectrum Strategies, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing siblings support, and dog matching and training to families of children with autism. Studied in six languages, a pianist, athlete, and a home cook of really legitimate Italian cuisine, she lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area."

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