His best-selling book, Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World, lays out his unique take on negotiating in a range of situations, from convincing a four-year-old to brush his teeth and go to bed on time, to an Indian woman talking her way out of an arranged marriage.

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We know about the young man who met the love of his life at a dinner party, ditching his plans to go to bed early and instead talking with the brilliant and charming Laura Welch late into the night.

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Mr Shah has been replaced by an acting chief justice, and for now Mr Sharif can go to bed unworried that the judiciary will have his head next morning.

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That night, he persuaded his mother to go to sleep a little earlier than usual, before going to bed himself.

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