Collaborating with the Enemy, Second Edition

By Adam Kahane

This bestselling conflict resolution book has helped thousands of people effectively collaborate across deep divides. Now it's updated with 50% new material for an increasingly polarized world.

"Offers practical guidance for how to work with diverse others, which is a precondition for confronting many of the complex challenges we face." --Morris Rosenberg, President, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

In today's fractured world, collaboration is increasingly difficult yet more crucial than ever. Often, to get something done that really matters, we need to work with people we don't agree with, like, or trust. Drawing from 30+ years of experience working with leaders in over 50 countries, Adam Kahane shows why conventional collaboration--requiring harmony and agreement--is obsolete. Instead, he provides 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 connectionStretch to experiment and learnStretch 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. With new case studies, a discussion guide, and frameworks for navigating permanent plurality in our polarized times, Kahane offers essential tools for transforming conflict into positive change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DYHQKRGB
• ISBN13: 9798890571175
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.