Collaborating with the Enemy ：How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust

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

Author： Kahane Adam

Publisher： Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781626568235

Subject： F241 劳动力

Keyword：贸易经济

Language： ENG

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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.

Chapter

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

About the Author

About Reos Partners

A Note from the Artist

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