Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary

Often, to get something done that matters to us, we need to use people we don’t trust or like or trust. Adam Kahane provides faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and careers and climate modification and on everyday issues in institutions and families. He has discovered that our standard understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious group that agrees on where it’s going, how it will make it happen, and who must do what—is normally wrong. Instead, we are in need of a new method of cooperation that embraces discord, experimentation, and authentic cocreation—which is strictly what Kahane provides within this groundbreaking and timely book.