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.?. Seller Inventory # 000485

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Title: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work ...

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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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.

Book Description:

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.