Sketchnotes are visual summaries of leadership, facilitation and change ideas, drawn by hand to make complex concepts easier to remember and share. Each post explains the key messages behind the drawing and how to use visual thinking in your own work. Browse the sketchnotes to find visual summaries of books, models and talks.
Collaborating with the enemy by Adam Kahane: a practical book summary
Collaborating with the Enemy challenges the comfortable idea that working together requires agreement, liking and trust. In this practical summary of the second edition, I draw out Adam Kahane’s main ideas: how enemyfying narrows our options, why collaboration is a choice among four options rather than a default, and how love, power and justice shape whether it works. I then walk through the difference between conventional and stretch collaboration, and the three stretches he suggests for working across deep difference: embracing conflict and connection, experimenting a way forward, and stepping into the game. You will also find five simple things to try this week, along with my sketchnotes of the book.
