Collaborating with the Enemy, Second Edition

Collaborating with the Enemy, Second Edition is a bestselling conflict resolution book that has aided thousands in effectively collaborating across profound divides. Now, it has been updated with 50 percent new material to address an increasingly polarised world.

"Adam Kahane worked with us on the future of our country. The four scenarios we built have come to life one after another, and today we are living the best one... Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future. In Colombia, we can attest that such transformation is really possible." -Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

In today's fractured world, collaboration is increasingly difficult yet more crucial than ever. Often, to accomplish something that truly matters, we need to work with people we don't agree with, like, or trust. Drawing from over thirty years of experience working with leaders in more than fifty countries, Adam Kahane demonstrates why conventional collaboration, which requires harmony and agreement, is obsolete. Instead, he offers a groundbreaking approach that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine co-creation.

Kahane introduces three key stretches to navigate difficult collaborations:

• Stretch to embrace conflict and connection
• Stretch to experiment and learn
• Stretch to step into the game

This substantially revised second edition adds multiple new chapters exploring how to work across deepening divides and with those we may never agree with. Using new case studies, a discussion guide, and frameworks for navigating permanent plurality in our polarised times, Kahane provides essential tools for transforming conflict into positive change.