Best Influence & Persuasion Books

“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” — Max Lucade

This is a list of my favorite and noteworthy books on dealing with conflict, negotiation, influence, and persuasion.

I put the bulk of the list categories so that you can explore in a relevant way and easily compare it with your library of books on influence, conflict, negotiation, and persuasion.

5 Best Influence & Persuasion Books

1. Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior ., by Kerry Patterson
2. Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst , by Rick Kirschner
3. Insider’s Guide To The Art Of Persuasion , by Rick Kirschner
4. Negotiation , by David M. Saunders
5. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion , by Jay Heinrichs

Best Influence & Persuasion Books by Category

Conflict

• A Survival Guide for Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers from Hell , by Gini Graham Scott
• Beyond Blame: A New Way of Resolving Conflicts in Relationships (Jossey-Bass Psychology Series) , by Jeffrey A. Kottler
• Coping with Difficult Bosses , by Robert M. Bramson
• Coping with Difficult People: The Proven-Effective Battle Plan That Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and at Work , by Robert M. Bramson
• Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior ., by Kerry Patterson
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High , by Kerry Patterson
• Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst , by Rick Kirschner
• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most , by Douglas Stone
• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time , by Susan Scott
• I Thought We’d Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation , by Laura Davis
• I’m Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict , by Roni Cohen-Sandler
• The Tao of Negotiation: How You Can Prevent, Resolve, and Transcend Conflict in Work and Everyday Life , by Joel Edelman
• Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion , George J. Thompson

Influence, Persuasion

• Brilliant NLP: What the Most Successful People Know, Say and Do , by David Molden
• Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions , by Guy Kawasaki
• Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World (Routledge Communication Series) , by Stephen D. Reese
• How To Win Friends and Influence People , by Dale Carnegie
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) , by Robert B. Cialdini
• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything , by Kerry Patterson
• Insider’s Guide To The Art Of Persuasion , by Rick Kirschner
• Insider’s Playbook , by Rick Kirschner
• The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters , by Peter Block
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life , by Rosamund Stone Zander

Negotiation

• Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition , by G. Richard Shell
• Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers , by Michael Watkins
• Essentials of Negotiation , by John W. Minton
• Getting Past No , by William Ury
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In , by Roger Fisher
• Harvard Business Essentials Guide to Negotiation , by Harvard Business School Press
• Manager as Negotiator , by David A. Lax
• Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, The (4th Edition) , by Leigh L. Thompson
• Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much , by Herb Cohen
• Negotiation , by David M. Saunders
• Principles of Negotiation: Strategies, Tactics, Techniques to Reach Agreement (Enrtepreneur’s Legal Guides) , by Matthew P. Guasco
• Rules for Radicals ,  by Saul D. Alinsky
• The Art and Science of Negotiation , by Howard Raiffa
• The Japanese Negotiator: Subtlety and Strategy Beyond Western Logic , by Robert M. March
• The One Minute Negotiator: Simple Steps to Reach Better Agreements , by Don Hutson
• The StreetSmart Negotiator: How to Outwit, Outmaneuver, and Outlast Your Opponents , by Harry Mills
• Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion , by Jay Heinrichs

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