This bestselling conflict resolution book has helped thousands of people effectively collaborate across deep divides. Now it’s been updated with 50 percent new material for an increasingly polarized 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 get something done that really matters, we need to work with people we don’t agree with, like, or trust. Drawing from thirty-plus years of experience working with leaders in over fifty countries, Adam Kahane shows why conventional collaboration—requiring harmony and agreement—is obsolete.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 cocreation. 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 polarized times, Kahane offers essential tools for transforming conflict into positive change. “Kahane writes with humility, sharing what he has learned from both his successes and his failures over a long career dedicated to helping address some of the world’s toughest problems. Collaborating with the Enemy 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, and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada “Peace, progress, and justice are only possible when we find ways to work with those we do not agree with, do not like, and do not trust. . . . That is why this book matters. Adam Kahane has spent decades helping people navigate the most intractable challenges by doing what seems counterintuitive: collaborating with the enemy. His approach does not rely on harmony or consensus. Instead, it embraces complexity, uncertainty, and disagreement as essential ingredients of meaningful change. This is not the traditional model of collaboration: it is a deeper, more courageous, and ultimately more effective one.” —Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize recipient “ Power and Love is a profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges.” —William Ury, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project, and coauthor of Getting to Yes “ Solving Tough Problems is a breakthrough book that addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.” —Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize recipient “Kahane addresses an important challenge that we face every day: how can we move forward together in situations where we are in conflict and unable to construct a shared vision of the future? In doing this he overturns conventional practice—including his own—and proposes a new approach to collaboration that is better suited to our difficult current context.” —Jan Kees Vis, Global Director, Sustainable Sourcing Development, Unilever “Adam’s Solving Tough Problems helped me understand that all our pressing problems—be they strategic issues inside a company or societal challenges like conflict, poverty, or climate change—require that those with a stake and the power to act come together in open dialogue to create a joint diagnosis and a deep commitment to moving forward together. In Power and Love , Adam goes further and deeper—into the kind of leadership that it takes to do this. A must-read for every reflective leader.” —Ravi Venkatesan, Director, Infosys, and former Chairman, Microsoft India “Our societies face really hard problems—poverty, injustice, unsustainability, corruption—that are insoluble by conventional means. Conflicts of interest and profound uncertainties about the future are producing paralysis and inaction. Adam Kahane has, more than anyone, developed and successfully employed tools that enable us to create futures of shared progress and profit.” —Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com, and author of The Art of the Long View “In Collaborating with the Enemy, Adam Kahane shows that people who don’t see eye-to-eye really can come together to solve big challenges. Whether in our businesses, our governments, our communitie