More Praise for Getting to Resolution
“Getting to Resolution offers a unique and effective paradigm for understanding how you can use your natural gifts and interconnectedness to improve your interactions in all relationships.”
Marvin E. Johnson, JD, Executive Director,
Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution
“Getting to Resolution is a clear and practical guide to the secret of success — how to create and leverage collaborative advantage. It is a must read for leaders seeking to strengthen relationships and get positive results.”
Diana Whitney, PhD, President, Corporation for Positive Change,
and coauthor of The Power of Appreciative
Inquiry, The Appreciative Inquiry Summit, and Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
“It is impossible to read this book and not grow in understanding of conflict, resolution, and self. Every page offers wisdom and practical tools.”
Arnie Herz, Esq.
“Stewart Levine has written a very practical book about one of life’s vexing problems — how to reach agreement with others when differences must be resolved. He does so with the intent of fostering collaboration and creativity as the outcome.”
Alan Briskin, author of The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace
and coauthor of The Power of Collective Wisdom
“This book is practical, mind-altering, and life-changing. It’s hard to achieve those in one book, but Getting to Resolution does that. It fills you with inner peace and the wisdom to untangle the thorniest conflict.”
Noah Blumenthal, author of the
Wall Street Journal bestseller Be the Hero
“If you want to resolve conflict and build relationships while connecting at a profound level, read Getting to Resolution. It gives you new language and practices for transforming your communication so you can lead at a higher level.”
Victoria Halsey, PhD, Vice President of Applied Learning,
The Ken Blanchard Companies, and coauthor of
The Hamster Revolution and The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
“He has developed techniques to resolve conflict and maximize satisfaction among all parties involved…Levine’s approach is refreshingly practical.”
Booklist
“His plan will go a long way to reducing the stress involved in collaborating with others and achieving a resolution which all parties find acceptable. A must read.”
Law Practice Management
“His process has real application…He makes the process accessible… Recommended for all public libraries.”
Library Journal
“Stewart Levine succeeds in changing our thinking about conflict, providing a model for resolution, and enabling us to take personal responsibility for dealing with conflict and diversity.”
The School Administrator
“Promotes a new way of thinking that shifts our focus from rights and entitlements to service and responsibility.”
Financial Sentinel
“Tools that get to the core of every conflict.”
Dayton News
“The book reveals real wisdom.”
Family Advocate
“Getting to Resolution offers a road map to finding common ground with reduced acrimony. Levine might have called it ‘Getting to Relationship.’”
Lawrence Richard, JD, PhD
“The model goes to the heart of our relationship with ourselves and others and injects a conscious awareness that brings us to a level of personal responsibility from which we can expand our lives.”
David Rotman, Esq., Mediator, Gregorio, Haldeman & Piazza
“Levine’s experiences give him the ability to see our culture more broadly. I applaud his work on driving us to understand the benefits of agreement and away from conflict”
Lance R. Primis, former President and COO,
The New York Times Company
“Ultimately practical, it allows you to experience the relief and satisfaction of ‘win-win’ relationships.”
Michael Lanier, former CIO, Charles Schwab and DHL
“Value for everyone who seeks to function effectively in society. Getting to Resolution will make it easier to use energy productively that would otherwise be wasted in confrontation.”
Richard W. Odgers, Esq., Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop,
and former General Counsel, Pacific Telesis
“The book will teach you how to get the best each individual has to offer by providing a behavioral model that promotes individual contribution to problem solving.”
Steven J. Noble, PhD, former Executive Director,
Human Resources Planning Society
“The power of collaboration is illuminated by real stories about real people. The book shows the importance of learning to listen and that agreement is the joyous outcome of a process of discovery and mutual commitment.”
Nina B. Link, President and CEO, Magazine Publishers of America
“An important tool for the hectic time we live in. A reminder that civilization rests on our ability to communicate with each other.”
Lord Graham of Edmonton, former Chief Whip, House of Lords
Praise for The Book of Agreement
“With less focus on the purely psychological aspects of reaching agreement than Getting to Yes, Levine’s book becomes a much more pragmatic approach.”
Perdido
“Among the best of 2003.”
The CEO Refresher
“It was like a whack on the side of the head when I embraced Levine’s notion that we’d all benefit from embracing the idea of creating agreements for results instead of negotiating agreements for protection. The pages are full of explicit advice on how to do it.”
James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge
and Encouraging the Heart
“We all want agreement. Here’s how to get it and keep it and work it.”
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times
bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul
“The Book of Agreement contains all the models you’ll ever need to protect questionable relationships and nurture strong relationships. It puts some iron in the handshake.”
Alan Weiss, PhD, author of The Ultimate Consultant
“Lawyers learn to reproduce mistrust by learning that the purpose of legal agreements is to protect you from the Other who is out to exploit you. Levine begins from the opposite premise — that the purpose of agreement is to build a bridge to the Other and realize your common aspiration for connection. This idea could help realize our spiritual nature as social beings in pursuit of mutual affirmation.”
Peter Gabel, Professor of Contract Law; Associate Editor, Tikkun;
and President of the Board, New College of California
“Stewart explains the art and the science of this elusive word. Readers will quickly be able to apply his ideas, suggestions, and experience. He maps the confusing and difficult territory of agreement so all of us can make this difficult process easier.”
Beverly Kaye, coauthor of Love ’Em or Lose ’Em; author of Up Is Not
the Only Way; and founder and President, Career Systems International
“Buy this book. I know systems for creating wealth. The system will help you create the kind of agreements that will generate more financial and emotional wealth in your life.”
Robert Allen, author of the four New York Times
bestsellers Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income,
Multiple Streams of Internet Income, and Nothing Down
“Stewart makes it clear our standard approaches to building agreements must change. He provides the philosophical and practical tools for individuals and institutions to transform their approaches and build a better world.”
Steven Keeva, former Assistant Managing Editor,
American Bar Association Journal, and author of Transforming Practices