Here is the draft complete text of the second edition of Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust. Please provide your feedback by April 4, with your detailed feedback in the Google Doc (please use Comment rather than Edit mode) and any more general feedback in the Comments section below.
I'm particularly keen to get your input on:
In general, what in this text strikes you as compelling, convincing, and clear, and what not?
One general problem with my writing, based as it is primarily on my experiences working on national and global issues, is that it can seem irrelevant and inaccessible to people who work at smaller scales. So I'd love to get your suggestions of additional single sentences along the following lines: "This idea is relevant in organisations (or communities or families) in this way..."
Any comments on the placeholder figures and drawings
I will keep revising this text for another month yet, and later the impeccable Berrett-Koehler team will copyedit and proofread it--and so you don't need to correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc.
A few of you have suggested that I need to work harder to make this book interesting to people beyond my current readers, and so I'd also like to get some thoughtful feedback from a few friends from outside this Book Club. If you know one person is whom you think would have a respectful and constructive perspective on this subject that is different from yours (and from mine), and they're interested in contributing to this project, please privately give them this link and invite them to also add their feedback. Please don't make this invitation on social media or to more than one person.
