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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

165: How to Work with People You Dislike with Adam Kahane

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Reos Partners cofounder Adam Kahane shares his expertise in dealing with conflicts and effectively collaborating with the enemy.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Why conventional collaboration does not work anymore
  2. The three stretches required from collaboration
  3. What to do when you can’t collaborate


About Adam

Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. Adam is the author of four books on solving tough problems. His latest is Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree With or Like or Trust.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 165 with Adam Cahane.

0:27.0

Adam brings his experience as a person who's broke her deals, negotiations, collaborations with arch enemies who've drawn

0:35.8

weapons on each other and boils down his lessons learned into some great stuff you can

0:41.1

apply when you've got to interact with folks that you don't care

0:44.6

for and do some collaboration.

0:46.4

So you're going to learn one, why conventional collaboration does not work anymore, two, the

0:51.9

three stretches required from collaboration and three, what to do when

0:56.7

you can't collaborate. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items

1:01.6

referenced here.

1:02.6

You'll find that over at awesome at your job.com

1:05.2

slash epp 165.

1:08.0

And while you're over at awesome at your job.com,

1:09.8

I hope you'll check out some of our cool resources and goodies.

1:13.4

One of my favorite undervalued resources is the little magnifying glass for

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search, which is right up there in the menu bar at also at your job.com

1:23.0

and it lets you search through the transcript of all 165 guests we've had thus far.

1:29.0

So if you got a challenge that you're dealing with at your J-O-B, you can probably just type that in and see what you see there.

1:37.0

Or if a brilliant guest said something that you forgot, you just got to remember a couple words and poof you go right to that episode where they're at

1:45.4

so I think the magnifying glass is an underrated and valuable resource there

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