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Sharks aren't wicked. But they're sole minded and incredibly, very famished. On land, they take the form of bosses, businesspeople, acquaintances, family, and sociopathic neighbours. In the wonderful world of past governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, they have taken the form of the most powerful people on the planet. He's engaged in high-stakes, face-to-face discussions with Castro, Saddam, the Taliban, two generations of North Korean authority, and so many more of the world's most infamous dictators - and done it so well he was known as the "Undersecretary of Thugs" while with the Clinton administration. Now the 5-time Nobel Tranquility Prize nominee explains to these testimonies - from Washington, DC, to the center East to Pyongyang - in all their intense and sometimes absurd glory. How to Sweet-Talk a Shark is a exceptional, candid, and engaging glimpse into an insider's world of high-stakes negotiation - exhibiting Richardson's successes and failures in some of the world's least friendly places. On the other hand, listeners get frank lessons in the artwork of negotiation: how to get ready, how to size up your opposition, how to comprehend the nature of power in a standoff, how to stop only what is necessary whilst getting what you want, and many other strategies Richardson has learned through at-the-table experience - and from working with other grasp negotiators like Presidents Obama and Clinton, and Nelson Mandela. These are takeaways that anyone can use to negotiate with the power brokers, deal creators, and, yes, the famished sharks in their own lives.
