Collaborating with the Enemy
How to Work with People You Dona€™t Agree with or Like or Trust

Deatails, details, details. This book is lacking them. Adam Kahane discribes the outlines and main lessons from some of his very impressive work experience and I feel like I would prefer to read each case study separately and learn from more comprehensice description, methods and learning points fro......more

After hearing this author's background on CBC radio and the catchy title of this book, it has sat on my TBR shelf for a year with me constantly thinking back on it whenever experiencing conflict. I can now say my high expectations were misplaced. I the writing was dull and didn't reach the revelatio......more

Instead of 100 pages long book, this could have been 10 pages long blog post. Or one TED talk. Interesting topic, where the author shares how to work with enemies (literally enemies, like in civil wars), but it is not that much applicable for normal workplaces.......more

I spend a lot of time working with people at work. That's the nature of work in the 21st century, but we talk about COLLABORATION every. single. day. The whole premise of where I work is to stick a whole bunch of people one group with a bunch of people from another group and have them work on Priori......more

This is a book for our times: from a place of authority and experience, Kahane explains why we need to get skilled at working with people who are so different that we really don't like or trust them, let alone agree with them. Having laid bare the Why, he also give a set of high-level guidelines for......more