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Collaborating with the Enemy
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Collaborating with the Enemy

by Adam Kahane
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 18m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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1Collaboration Is Becoming MoreNecessary and More Difficult

The urge to form partnerships, to link up in collaborative arrangements, is perhaps the oldest, strongest, and most fundamental force in nature. There are no solitary, free living creatures: every form of life is dependent on other forms.

—Lewis Thomas1

Collaboration is often imperative and usually challenging. And the more we need it, the more difficult we find it.

“I COULD NEVER WORK WITH THOSE PEOPLE!

In November 2015, I was facilitating the first workshop of a group of 33 national leaders. They had come together to search for solutions to their country’s most critical problem: the devastating nexus of insecurity, illegality, and inequality. Everyone at the meeting was worried about ...

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