We often find that to make progress on our most important and difficult challenges, we need to work with people whose perspectives and positions are different from ours, writes Adam Kahane referencing his book, Collaborating with the Enemy.
Working with diverse others doesn’t have to mean compromising your values. But if you just can’t do it, there are other ways to solve difficult problems.
Source: Strategy + Business, August 15, 2018. Link.
The higher potential of collaboration with diverse others is that together you’ll be able to understand more of your situation and so will be able to create new options that are better than the ones you’d been able to imagine or implement separately.
INSIGHTS: Reviewing this article I was reminded of Stephen Covey’s Habit 4: Think Win-Win from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®. We’ve linked to the Six Paradigms of Human Interaction including Win-win or No Deal to further support Kahane’s article. <link>