Book cover for Never Settle: Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Get What You Want by Attia Qureshi and John Richardson

Never Settle

Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Get What You Want

2026 Released
384 Pages
6-7 Hours
Paperback Unavailable
Simon Element / Simon AcumenISBN 9781668070383

The definitive guide to transforming everyday interactions into remarkable wins, from Harvard Law, MIT, and University of Michigan’s negotiation experts.

What if you could walk away from every conversation with exactly what you want? At work, at home, and in our daily interactions, our lives are full of constant negotiation—from trying to score a promotion to changing an airline flight to getting your spouse to take out the trash. But while we like to think we know how to get our way, too many of us struggle to capture what we know we deserve.

In Never Settle, renowned negotiation experts Attia Qureshi and John Richardson move beyond the basic theory of persuasion to help you drill these invaluable skills to get more in every aspect of your life. Drawing from decades of experience teaching at elite institutions, as well as incorporating insights they’ve culled from FBI negotiation tactics, they offer you groundbreaking, actionable strategies to show you how to negotiate with confidence and achieve extraordinary results, no matter the circumstances. With easy-to-follow, habit-building exercises, this revolutionary guide reveals how you can build trust through reciprocity, get more through a strategic “no,” and craft win-win outcomes through creative problem solving.

Accessible and empowering, Never Settle equips you with the techniques you need to unlock the best deal, without settling for anything less.

Attia Qureshi

Attia Qureshi is the founder of AQ Consulting, where she supports companies through negotiation, conflict resolution and organizational strategy. She is an adjunct at the Ford School of Public Policy and previously at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Ross School of Business. She has also worked on behalf of the US State Department in conflict zones.

John Richardson

John Richardson is Professor of Art History, Musicology and Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal (2012). He co-edited several collections, including Essays on Sound and Vision (2007), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013).

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