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Architect's Essentials of Negotiation Ava J. Abramowitz

Architect's Essentials of Negotiation By Ava J. Abramowitz

Architect's Essentials of Negotiation by Ava J. Abramowitz


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Where do you turn if you are an architect or student wanting to deepen those skill sets that will make you a more successful professional? Well, taking a look at Ava Abramowitz's new book, The Architect's Essentials of Negotiation will be a step in the right direction.

Architect's Essentials of Negotiation Summary

Architect's Essentials of Negotiation by Ava J. Abramowitz

Where do you turn if you are an architect or student wanting to deepen those skill sets that will make you a more successful professional? Well, taking a look at Ava Abramowitz's new book, The Architect's Essentials of Negotiation will be a step in the right direction.
-Robert Greenstreet, Dean, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning

This is an essential guide for architects and their clients and consultants who need professional advice on negotiations, from design development to agreements and fees. Contractors will want to read it, too, especially if they are involved with Integrated Project Delivery. This new edition offers updated insights related to negotiation, with references to the AIA Contract Documents, communication, collaboration, and handling disputes, change, and claims.

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Supposedly architects don't need negotiating skills along with other communication skills because great design sells itself. How lovely that an AIA legal counsel created this definitive book to shatter that thin myth. I'll assert that only a critically-positioned outsider to the profession could have written a book with this valuable slant. If you're involved in any way in architectural education, be subversive and recommend this book as the first assigned reading for entering students. This is what the world - of architecture and everything else - needs now. (Norman Weinstein, ArchNewsNow, June 5, 2009)

About Ava J. Abramowitz

AVA J. ABRAMOWITZ, ESQ. HON. AIA, lectures nationwide on negotiation, risk management, and assertive practice. She teaches negotiations at George Washington University Law School and Catholic University's School of Architecture and Planning, and serves as a mediator in the federal courts in Washington, D.C. Formerly AIA deputy general counsel, she is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council and a founding fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. She is currently the public member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

A Word from an Owner xix

A Word from an Architect xxiii

A Word from a Construction Lawyer xxvii

1 Why You Want to Read This Book 1

How to Use This Book 5

2 Front-End Alignment 17

The Study 18

How to Use Front-End Alignment in Practice 37

3 The Purpose of Contracts 45

The Difference between Contracts and Torts 46

How Liable Are You? 60

The Purpose of Design and Construction Contracts 63

Managing Risk 76

4 Power and Leverage: How to Get It and Keep It 89

Negotiation: What Is It? 90

Why Architects Fear Negotiation 94

Two Ways to Negotiate: Hard and Soft 97

Another Way of Negotiating: Principled 101

How to Negotiate on the Merits 115

There You Have It: Principled Negotiation 125

5 Preparation Tips 127

Who Prepares More? 128

Negotiating Fees 141

Fees as Grease: An Operational Theory 144

Defining Your Value 147

Making the Pie Bigger 152

When You're Too Expensive 155

Ava's Preparation Cheat Sheet 158

6 The Communication Behaviors of Expert Negotiators 165

The Three Classes of Communication Behaviors 166

Whom Do You Trust? Who Trusts You? 183

What Expert Negotiators Don't Do 197

7 Collaboration and Team Building 205

Types of Meetings 208

How to Make Meetings Work 214

8 How to Say Yes, How to Say No 231

Ava's Rules of Contract Interpretation 236

Applying the Rules 241

Putting the Rules to Work 244

9 When the Best Laid Plans . . . 283

When a Rift Is Brewing: Recognizing Disputes 284

When the Air Thickens: Handling Confrontations 287

When a Change Is Looming: Managing Change 291

When a Claim Is in the Offing: Managing Claims 299

When a Lawsuit Is Pending: Negotiating Disputes 303

10 Pulling It All Together 311

One Final Story 320

Appendix Building a Support System 325

On Selecting Your Lawyer 326

A Word to My Legal Colleagues 328

If You Want to Learn More 332

Final Thoughts 338

Index 339

Additional information

NLS9780470426883
9780470426883
0470426888
Architect's Essentials of Negotiation by Ava J. Abramowitz
New
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2009-03-27
384
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