Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence Audiobook (Free)

Recognized diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how exactly to put diplomatic values like courage, power, and persistence to work within their own lives.

Few people have sat across in the Iranians as well as the North Koreans at the negotiating table. Wendy Sherman did both. During her time as the lead US negotiator from the historic Iran nuclear offer and throughout her distinguished career, Wendy Sherman provides amassed tremendous experience in one of the most about Not really for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence pressing international policy issues of our period. Throughout her life-from growing up in civil-rights-era Baltimore, to stints like a sociable worker, campaign manager, and business proprietor, to advising multiple presidents-she offers relied on ideals that have shaped her approach to work and command: authenticity, effective usage of power and persistence, approval of modification, and commitment towards the team.

Not really for the Faint of Heart calls for readers in the world of international diplomacy and in to the mind of one of our most effective negotiators-often the only woman in the area. She shows why good work in her field is indeed hard to do, and how exactly we can figure out how to apply primary abilities of diplomacy towards the challenges in our own lives.