Most negotiation books or courses emphasize the importance of figuring out the dominant negotiating style of the party sitting across the table from you. As Chriss Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depends on It explains, there are basically only three: Accommodator, Assertive, and Analyst.

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