How to Sweet-Talk a Shark by Bill Richardson

How to Sweet-Talk a Shark by Bill Richardson

Sharks are not evil. But they're single minded and very, very hungry. On land, they take the form of bosses, businesspeople, colleagues, family, and sociopathic neighbors. In the world of former governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, they have taken the form of the most powerful people in the world.

He's engaged in high-stakes, face-to-face negotiations with Castro, Saddam, the Taliban, two generations of North Korean leadership, and 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 Peace Prize nominee tells these stories from Washington, DC, to the Middle East to Pyongyang in all their intense and sometimes absurd glory.

How to Sweet-Talk a Shark is a rare, candid, and entertaining glimpse into an insider's world of high-stakes negotiation showing Richardson's successes and failures in some of the world's least friendly places. Meanwhile, listeners get frank lessons in the art of negotiation: how to prepare, how to size up your opponent, how to understand the nature of power in a standoff, how to give up only what is necessary while getting what you want, and many other strategies Richardson has mastered through at-the-table experience and from working with other master negotiators like Presidents Obama and Clinton, and Nelson Mandela. These are takeaways that anyone can use to negotiate with the power brokers, deal makers, and, yes, the hungry sharks in their own lives.

Bill Richardson is a writer and broadcaster. His books include Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and After Hamelin, a novel for children, which won the Silver Birch Award. For CBC Radio, he hosted Richardson's Roundup and Bunny Watson. He lives in Vancouver, B.C., and Holmfield, Manitoba.

Roxanna Bikadoroff is an award-winning Canadian artist whose illustrations have been published internationally for more than 25 years. Her work has been published (and shown) in Canada, the United States, Japan, England, Ireland, Europe, Romania, Brazil, Israel, and China. Her illustrations have appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker and The Walrus magazine and on numerous book covers. She works in a variety of mediums, has won numerous awards, and has served twice as a judge for the National Magazine Awards. She was born in Montreal and currently lives in Vancouver.

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ISBN 13	9781623360573
ISBN 10	1623360579
Title	How to Sweet-Talk a Shark
Author	Bill Richardson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Rodale Books
Year published	2013-10-15
Number of pages	238
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