
Collaborating with the Enemy
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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.
"Kahane shows that people who don't 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, former President, The Nature Conservancy and coauthor of Nature's Fortune
"Shows us how thinking and seeing differently can help us navigate this challenging landscape. Kahane abandons orthodoxy in taking on the most intransigent problems, showing us the path to effective action in a complex world." -James Gimian, coauthor of The Rules of Victory
" Collaborating with the Enemybelongs on the same shelf as Sun Tzu's The Art of Warand Machiavelli's The Prince."-Stephen Huddart, President, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust
- 1: COLLABORATION IS BECOMING MORE NECESSARY AND MORE DIFFICULT
- "I could never work with those people!"
- The enemyfying syndrome
- The central challenge of collaboration
- 2: COLLABORATION IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION
- The way forward is unclear
- "The miraculous option is that we work things through together"
- There are three alternatives to collaboration
- Collaboration must be a choice
- 3: CONVENTIONAL, CONSTRICTED COLLABORATION IS BECOMING OBSOLETE
- Constriction prevents movement
- Change management assumes control
- "There is only one right answer"
- The limitations of conventional collaboration
- 4: UNCONVENTIONAL, STRETCH COLLABORATION IS BECOMING ESSENTIAL
- Stretching creates flexibility and discomfort
- How to end a civil war
- Stretch collaboration abandons the illusion of control
- 5: THE FIRST STRETCH IS TO EMBRACE CONFLICT AND CONNECTION
- Dialogue is not enough
- There is more than one whole
- Every holon has two drives
- Alternate power and love
- 6: THE SECOND STRETCH IS TO EXPERIMENT A WAY FORWARD
- We cannot control the future, but we can influence it
- We are crossing the river by feeling for stones
- Creativity requires negative capability
- Listen for possibility rather than for certainty
- 7: THE THIRD STRETCH IS TO STEP INTO THE GAME
- "They need to change!"
- If you're not part of the problem, you can't be part of the solution
- Be a pig rather than a chicken
- CONCLUSION: How to Learn to Stretch
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z
- About the Author
- About Reos Partners
- A Note from the Artist
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