Download or read book Executive Diplomacy and the Art of Strategic Negotiations written by Marc Burbridge and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Diplomacy and the Art of Strategic Negotiations By: Marc Burbridge What does it take for a manager or executive to be something more than just another in the myriad of those who make up corporate leadership, or for a corporate culture to be more than just one more “follow-me”? This book provides a new, fresh look at how things can be, and it does so by simple taking a few lessons from the ancient art of diplomacy and applying them to the Executive Diplomat and a corporate culture described as Executive Diplomacy. Typically, corporate executives are taught and encouraged to be assertive, bordering on aggressive, and so they often are. They do so without realizing that one can easily be assertive while failing to be effective. In the same manner, they celebrate the signing of a contract while ignoring that the objective is not the signing of the contract, but rather its effective implementation. Often their bonus blinds them from the value of a more diplomatic approach, a more lucrative one. We invite the reader to step beyond yesterday and explore something new and innovative where empowered executive alignment opens the pathway to a more meaningful corporate culture and better results in high-value, strategic negotiations in the new reality. We suggest you start with the Preface of this book, or by visiting www.executivediplomacy.org.