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

Kahane, Adam

ISBN 10: 1626568227 / ISBN 13: 9781626568228

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017

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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don?t Agree With or Like or Trust. Berrett-Koehler, 2017. Softcover. Condition: Fine. Signed by author. ?Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary. Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don't agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration--that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it's going, how it's going to get there, and who needs to do what--is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation--which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book.?.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626568227
• ISBN 13: 9781626568228
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary

Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don't agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration--that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it's going, how it's going to get there, and who needs to do what--is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation--which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book.

About the Author

Adam Kahane is a director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues.