Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Dont Agree with or Lik

Description: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Dont Agree with or Like or Trust by KAHANE International consultant Adam Kahane, who has worked in some very fraught contexts in his career, has found that in low-control, high-conflict situations, everything we think we know about what makes collaboration work is wrong. In this very timely book he takes on five misunderstandings that keep us from effectively collaborating with ""those people"" and tells us what we should do instead. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessaryOften, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we dont 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 its going, how its 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Contents Foreword by Peter Block ix Preface xvii Introduction: How to Work with People You Dont Agree with or Like or Trust 1 1: Collaboration Is Becoming More Necessary and More Difficult 5 "I could never work with those people!" 5 The enemyfying syndrome 7 The central challenge of collaboration 9 2: Collaboration Is Not the Only Option 11 The way forward is unclear 12 "The miraculous option is that we work thingsthrough together" 12 There are three alternatives to collaboration 15 Collaboration must be a choice 18 3: Conventional, Constricted Collaboration Is Becoming Obsolete 25 Constriction prevents movement 25 Change management assumes control 26 "There is only one right answer" 29 The limitations of conventional collaboration 31 4: Unconventional, Stretch Collaboration Is Becoming Essential 39 Stretching creates flexibility and discomfort 39 How to end a civil war 41 Stretch collaboration abandons the illusion of control 46 5: The First Stretch Is to Embrace Conflict and Connection 49 Dialogue is not enough 49 There is more than one whole 55 Every holon has two drives 59 Alternate power and love 61 6: The Second Stretch Is to Experiment Way A Way Forward 69 We cannot control the future, but we can influence it 69 We are crossing the river by feeling for stones 75 Creativity requires negative capability 80 Listen for possibility rather than for certainty 82 7: The Third Stretch Is to Step into the Game 89 "They need to change!" 90 If youre not part of the problem, you cant bepart of the solution 93 Be a pig rather than a chicken 96 Conclusion: How to Learn to Stretch 99 Notes 109 Acknowledgments 115 Index 118 About the Author 126 About Reos Partners 128 A Note from the Artist, Jeff Barnum 130 Review "getAbstract recommends his well-organized manual to anyone[...]" - getAbstract Review Quote "Kahane writes with humility, sharing what he has learned from both his successes and his failures over a long career dedicated to helping address some of the worlds toughest problems. Collaborating with the Enemy offers practical guidance for how to work with diverse others, which is a precondition for confronting many of the complex challenges we face." --Morris Rosenberg, President, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada "Adam Kahane worked with us on the future of our country. The four scenarios we built have come to life one after another, and today we are living the best one. In Transformative Scenario Planning, Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future. In Colombia we can attest that such transformation is really possible." --Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize recipient "Power and Love is a profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges." --William Ury, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project, and coauthor of Getting to Yes "Solving Tough Problems is a breakthrough book that addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created." --Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize recipient "Kahane addresses an important challenge that we face every day: how can we move forward together in situations where we are in conflict and unable to construct a shared vision of the future? In doing this he overturns conventional practice--including his own--and proposes a new approach to collaboration that is better suited to our difficult current context." --Jan Kees Vis, Global Director, Sustainable Sourcing Development, Unilever "Adams Solving Tough Problems helped me understand that all our pressing problems--be they strategic issues inside a company or societal challenges like conflict, poverty, or climate change--require that those with a stake and the power to act come together in open dialogue to create a joint diagnosis and a deep commitment to moving forward together. In Power and Love, Adam goes further and deeper--into the kind of leadership that it takes to do this. A must-read for every reflective leader." --Ravi Venkatesan, Director, Infosys, and former Chairman, Microsoft India "Our societies face really hard problems--poverty, injustice, unsustainability, corruption--that are insoluble by conventional means. Conflicts of interest and profound uncertainties about the future are producing paralysis and inaction. Adam Kahane has, more than anyone, developed and successfully employed tools that enable us to create futures of shared progress and profit." --Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com, and author of The Art of the Long View "In Collaborating with the Enemy, Adam Kahane shows that people who dont see eye-to-eye really can come together to solve big challenges. Whether in our businesses, our governments, our communities, or our personal lives, we can all benefit from this smart and timely book." --Mark Tercek, President, The Nature Conservancy; former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; and coauthor of Natures Fortune "Adam Kahane proposes a solid and clear methodology, supported by his experience in the many processes in which he has participated, that invites us to defy our situation and to transform--not only to change--it, beginning by transforming ourselves." --Luis Ral Gonzlez Prez, President, National Human Rights Commission, Mexico "Kahane takes the core message from his seminal Promotional "Headline" International consultant Adam Kahane teaches us how to work with people whom we might not like or trust. He explains how flexibility and improvisation can lead to what he calls "stretch collaboration." He outlines the five misunderstandings that keep people from effectively collaborating with "those people" and shows readers how they can successfully engage with positive results instead. Description for Sales People EXPERT AUTHOR: Adam Kahane is an expert negotiator and facilitator, and his previous books have sold over 100,000 copies. Kahane developed his approach while facilitating some of the most high-tension situations imaginable in places such as South Africa, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Columbia. COUNTERINTUITIVE APPROACH: Kahane shows that collaboration with people we dont like, trust, or agree with requires flipping our conventional concept of collaboration on its head. REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES: Kahane includes numerous examples from everyday workplace and extraordinary international real-life situations in the book. Details ISBN1626568227 Publisher Berrett-Koehler Year 2017 ISBN-10 1626568227 ISBN-13 9781626568228 Format Paperback Imprint Berrett-Koehler Subtitle How to Work with People You Dont Agree with or Like or Trust Place of Publication San Francisco Country of Publication United States Series Agency/Distributed DEWEY 302 Media Book Short Title Collaborating with the Enemy Language English UK Release Date 2017-06-05 Pages 160 Publication Date 2017-06-05 AU Release Date 2017-06-05 NZ Release Date 2017-06-05 US Release Date 2017-06-05 Author KAHANE Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141755543;

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