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Collaborating with the Enemy
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Collaborating with the Enemy

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

Adam Kahane
Berrett-Koehler, 2017

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Collaboration is essential in today’s workplace, but you may have to work with people whom you dislike and who dislike you. Social enterprise expert Adam Kahane, who has spent 25 years helping groups around the world negotiate seeming irreconcilable differences, explains how to work with those you’d rather avoid, achieve your goals and maybe even make peace. He discusses when, how and why collaboration works and warns against its pitfalls. getAbstract recommends his well-organized manual to anyone who must find common ground where none seems to exist.

Take-Aways

  • “Collaboration” does not occur only among people with shared ideas and goals.
  • To get things done, you must be able to work cooperatively with your rivals or enemies.
  • Instead of collaborating, people may run away or try to force their ideas on others.

About the Author

Adam Kahane is a director and co-founder of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise. He has worked in more than 50 countries with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and clergy.

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