Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626568227 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. . 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
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.
Perfect Father's Day Gift J. Masters For the all the wisdom Kahane imparts in this small volume, the greatest gift is his own story, his collaboration with his own inner enemies of patriarchy, arrogance, certainty, and privilege. He tells of the pain and humiliation that opened the way to ne. ""Love one another as I have loved you” and the toughest one of them all" according to Vasken Kalayjian. The essential teachings of Jesus for me is The Sermon on the Mount: "Love your neighbor as yourself", “Love Your Enemy as yourself”, "Love one another as I have loved you” and the toughest one of them all: "Love yourself as I (Jesus) hav. "Mandatory reading for those of us yearning to make a dent in the universe in our life time" according to victor garcia. This is a breakthrough book. And in this era of unprecedented polarization and volatility it should be required reading for all. It will not only change the way we think about collaboration, it will also set a new standard for how one embarks on collabora
The four scenarios we built have come to life one after another, and today we are living the best one. Collaborating with the Enemy provides a hands-on critique of the myth of the uninvolved mediator and explains the art of working with the enemy.”—Gorka Espiau, Associate Director, The Young Foundation, and former Peace Advisor to the President, Basque Government “Mahatma Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.' His life was the unfolding of an even deeper truth: the need to change himself if he wanted to change the world. Adam shows us a way to do so.”—James Shaw, Member of Parliament and Coleader, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand“Collaborating with the Enemy is a lighthouse for our troubled times. Whether in our businesses, our governments, our communities, or our personal lives, we can all benefit from this smart and timely