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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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Introduction: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust

We face the same basic challenge everywhere: at home and work, in business and politics, on community and national and global issues. We are trying to get something done that we think is crucial. To do this, we need to work with others. These others include people we do not agree with or like or trust. And so we are torn: we think that we must work with these others and also that we must not. Collaboration seems both imperative and impossible. What do we do?

The reason such collaborations seem impossible is that we misunderstand collaboration.

Our conventional understanding of collaboration is that it requires us all to be on the same team and headed in the same direction, ...

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