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Review of Eye of the Storm Leadership by Peter Adler (4/21/08)
John Sautelle If you want a thought-provoking, engaging and at times inspirational read then this is the book for you! Apart from conflict resolution much of my professional time these days is spent working with private and public sector organisations developing leadership skills, so the title to Peter’s latest book immediately caught my eye. As it turns out, this book is not about leadership generally – it focuses specifically on leadership in the context of conflict. Whilst the content is directly relevant to anyone who works in conflict resolution, I think it is clear Peter did not have mediators alone in mind when he put pen to paper.
Book Reviews of The Handbook of Conflict Resolution and The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (1/14/08)
Josefina Rendon The titles of these two books, Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Conflict Handbook) and Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Dispute Handbook), are so similar that professionals and students in the field(s) may confuse them if not comparing them side by side. This may be due to the fact that both are published by the same publisher, or perhaps it is that the words “conflict” and “dispute” in each of their titles are so similar that they are often used interchangeably.
Book Review: The Negotiator's Fieldbook (1/26/07)
Joe Epstein The Negotiator’s Fieldbook is an excellent and diverse anthology about cutting edge issues of negotiation, which reflects insightful effort by the editors in assembling thoughtful and well-researched articles by the contributing writers.
Ten Success Secrets from Top (Non-Starving) Mediators (11/27/06)
Dottie DeHart Yes, There Is Money in Mediation! It isn’t exactly easy to make big bucks as a mediator, but industry standout
Jeffrey Krivis says it is possible. In his new book, he has teamed up with some of his successful colleagues to share a few lucrative tricks of the trade.
Mediation Survivor’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Mediation for the Parties (Book Review) (11/20/06)
Sharon Lowenstein I highly recommend this concise and easy-to-read book for newcomers to mediation. Directed specifically to those who, whether represented by attorneys or not, can expect to be the principal participants in family, probate, victim-offender, peer (school), small claims and other mediations where attorneys, if present, generally remain in the background. Filled with practical advice and tips, it takes readers step-by-step through the mediation process in each such venue. Professionals will want to recommend it to clients about to engage in mediation for the first time.
How to Make Money as a Mediator (Book Review) (11/11/06)
Mark Loeterman Many newly minted mediators have just completed the military’s equivalent of “basic training.” They have taken several classes on mediation and gained some experience mediating disputes, sometimes through a local court panel or community organization. Now, they are ready to quit an old line of work and dive into a career as a mediator. With this limited background and high hopes, the first question typically asked is “How can I establish a financially successful practice?” This book by Jeffrey Krivis and Naomi Lucks seeks to answer that question.
Book Review: How to Make Money as a Mediator by Jeff Krivis (9/04/06)
Charles B. Parselle So, how does one make money as a mediator? To answer this question, Krivis has turned to consider the habits of 30 highly successful people, comprising a Who’s Who of top mediators from Canada to New Zealand and across the United States, all of whom are liberally quoted in the book. Special Feature (PDF): Introduction and Chapter One
Beyond Reason: Using Emotions As You Negotiate (Book Review) (7/31/06)
Jan Frankel Schau Dealing with emotions has become an inextricable part of high level negotiations in mediation. Yet few writer’s have dared to cross the chasm between the psychological underpinnings for such emotion and the strategic use of emotions in negotiation. And none as brilliantly and insightfully as Roger Fisher (author of the acclaimed “Getting to Yes”) and Daniel Shapiro.
Improvisational Negotiation (Book Review) (7/03/06)
Rick Russell If a picture is worth a thousand words, a powerful story helps us make sense of our experience and captures truth in a way that nothing else quite can. This is a book of such stories.
Book Review: Improvisational Negotiation by Jeffrey Krivis (5/06/06)
John D. Baker This is a book review of "Improvisational Negotiation: A Mediator's Stories of Conflict about Love, Money, Anger - and the strategies that resolved them" by Jeffrey Krivis. This is an outstanding book of stories, strategies and methods that the author has tested and proven in thousands of mediations over a span of fifteen years.
Film Review: Thank You For Smoking Offers An Advanced Tutorial in Negotiation Strategies and Ethics (4/25/06)
Robert Benjamin The film forces us to focus on the nature of message ‘spinning,’ word twisting, and other communication and negotiation strategies used as much to confuse as to clarify. This is the stuff of advocating, selling, and persuading with which we are bombarded daily in our ‘infomercial’ society. In watching the movie, the viewer is obligated to separate the strategies and techniques of influencing from the purposes and ends to which they are placed in service. The fact that manipulative and deceptive strategies are used is less troubling than whether it is being done for good or ill.
Reading For Stretch (11/07/05)
Barbara Ashley Phillips Here's to open minds and open hearts. Let your reading and ruminating integrate greater recognition of newer, more creative, more life-serving possibilities. The more mediation gets institutionalized and formalized, the more difficult it is to think beyond present formulations. The sooner we start getting serious about nurturing our own personal growing edge, the better. Enjoy looking for ways old thinking creeps into your own daily life and work, and letting that go. It's up to us.
The Conflict Resolution Toolbox (Book Review) (8/21/05)
Jon Linden Gary Furlong’s new book is one that seems to present a new paradigm for the field. Mr. Furlong creates a very new concept in the literature of Mediation. His book may very well be a seminal work in the manner in which mediating and training of mediators is structured into the future. Mr. Furlong suggests something that does not seem to exist in this form presently. So, what is it that Mr. Furlong gives that could be that important, that significant?
Basic Skills for the New Arbitrator (Book Review) (5/12/05)
Jon Linden Often times people who are highly experienced in either Negotiation, Mediation or Arbitration wish to try and enter one of the other of these three as a field of avocation. If you are a Negotiator or Mediator and have been considering adding Arbitration to your repertoire of services, then this book was written for YOU!
Confessions of a Tamed Cynic -- Review of The Moral Imagination by John Paul Lederach (4/08/05)
Robert Benjamin The Moral Imagination struck a number of my most sensitive nerves. By the time I finished reading and had taken some time to consider the scope and depth of this work, I was appreciative (and not a little envious) of John Paul’s optimism, especially because it was not borne of naïveté or rooted in some ‘cockeyed’ ideology of how people should be. Rather, Lederach works with the realpolitik of the situations in which he is engaged without allowing his thinking to be constrained by fatalist notions that nothing can change.
Helping Others Resolve Differences (Book Review) (10/18/04)
Jon Linden Gregory Billikopf’s new book is an important one. In it, Mr. Billikopf introduces a NEW approach to Mediation. Upon first encountering it, it seems totally new, but upon reading it, the reader will find, that some elements of his new concept are already in use, just not to the extent which Mr. Billikopf suggests that they can be used. As an introduction, Mr. Billikopf is a very transformative mediator in overall style. However, he mixes and matches the good from all types of mediation styles in his work.
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