Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust

As society becomes more polarized and globalized and organizations become less hierarchical, more of us need to collaborate across increasingly heterogeneous groups than ever before. International consultant Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times in working both on big issues, like economic restructuring, climate change, and civil war, and on ordinary issues within organizations and families. He has come to understand that everything we think we know about collaboration - that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it's going and how it's going to get there - is wrong. On the contrary, the only way to get things done with diverse others is to abandon harmony, agreement, and control and to learn to work with discord, experimentation, and genuine co-creation. Kahane proposes a new approach to collaboration - stretch collaboration - that is built on this insight, offering a proven and practical approach to getting things done.

Author: Adam Kahane
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler on Dreamscape Audio
Published: 06/12/2017
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 4.90h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781520075105
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Kahane, Adam: - Adam Kahane is the director of Reos Partners, an organization that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. He has worked in more than fifty countries in every part of the world, with executives, politicians, generals, guerillas, civil servants, trade unionists, community activists, United Nations officials, clergy, and artists. His work has been praised by Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Juan Manuel Santos.Hoyt, Jeff: - Jeff Hoyt has spent over twenty years working as a voiceover artist. In addition to that work, Jeff writes a column for an alternative northwest newspaper, performs the occasional commentary for NPR, hosts a semi-regular Internet radio show and a podcast, and assists Vashon Island's all-volunteer radio station in its quest for an over-the-air FCC license.