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We're looking to get something done that matters to us. To do this we have to use others. But these others include people we don't trust or like or trust, so working with them seems impossible - like collaborating with the enemy. What can we do? International consultant Adam Kahane, whose work has been praised by Nobel Peace Award winners Nelson Mandela and Juan Manuel Santos, has faced this challenge many times in working both on big issues, like economical restructuring, environment change, and civil battle, and on regular issues within organizations and individuals. He has come to understand that everything we think we realize about cooperation - that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it's going and how it will get there - is wrong. On the other hand, the only path to get things finished with diverse others is to give up harmony, arrangement, and control also to learn to use discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation. Kahane proposes a fresh approach to collaboration - extend cooperation - that is made on this insight. He offers examples of how he's helped people put it on in all sorts of tough situations across the world. This approach requires stepping ahead with openness and determination, as in the words of poet Antonio Machado, "Walker, there is absolutely no path. The path is made by walking." As our societies have become more polarized and globalized and our organizations have become less hierarchical, more of us need to collaborate across more heterogeneous communities than ever before. Which means that progressively more often we face situations where normal collaboration can not work. Kahane's e book offers a proven and practical approach to getting things done in such sophisticated and conflictual contexts. It might not become more timely.
