The world's best negotiators have moved beyond the conventional wisdom by utilising cutting-edge studies and real-world results. It's time you did too.

For over twenty years, David Sally has been teaching the art of negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies. Now, using insightsfrom social psychology and game theory, he delivers the proven, clear, actionable advice you need to stay one step ahead.

By studying great examples, from Machiavelli to Wall Street, Xi Jinping and Barack Obama, he explores how the games masters navigate the field strategically, craftily, even emotionally. The best know every negotiation is different and that your tactics are, in part, determined by your opponent. One Step Aheadwill make sure that you have what it takes to come out on top, no matter who you are facing across the table.