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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable: Laws of Business Success
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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable: Laws of Business Success

by Brian Tracy
January 2000
Beginner to intermediate
319 pages
5h 56m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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77. The Law of Four

There are four main issues to be decided upon in any negotiation; everything else is dependent on these.

There may be dozens of details to be ironed out in a complex agreement, but the success or failure of the negotiation will turn on no more than four issues. I have spent two and three days in negotiating sessions with teams of skilled businesspeople on both sides of the table, discussing fifty pages of small and large details, only to have everything boil down to four key issues at the end.

The first corollary of the Law of Four is Eighty percent or more of the content of the negotiation will revolve around these four issues.

This Law of Four and this factor of 80 percent turn out to be true in almost every case. No ...

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ISBN: 9781576751077