Book excerpt: Deskripsi A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts—no MBA required! The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today’s business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101: From Planning Your Strategy to Finding a Common Ground, an Essential Guide to the Art of Negotiating by Peter Sander is an easy-to-understand roadmap of today’s complex business world, packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts that can’t be found anywhere else. So whether you’re a new business owner, a middle manager, or an entry-level employee, this 101 series has the answers you need to conduct business in a smarter way. Tentang Penulis Peter Sander is an author, researcher, and consultant in the fields of business, location reference, and personal finance. He has written more than forty books, including Value Investing for Dummies, Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs, and 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics. The author of numerous articles dealing with investment strategies, he is also the coauthor of the top-selling the 100 Best Stocks series.