Foreword / by Peter Block -- Preface -- Introduction: how to work with people you don't agree with or like or trust -- Collaboration is becoming more necessary and more difficult -- Collaboration is not the only option -- Conventional, constricted collaboration is becoming obsolete --...

Purpose The article offers an innovative process for collaborating with people you don’t agree with or like or trust . Design/methodology/approach Based on his experience as a collaboration facilitator in national and regional conflicts and stalemates, the author explains how to achieve...

An invention born of necessity: the Mont Fleur scenario exercise -- A new way to work with the future -- First step: convene a team from across the whole system -- Second step: observe what is happening -- Third step: construct stories about what could happen -- Fourth step: discover what can...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe “transformative scenario planning,” a methodology that enables people trying to change the future collaboratively to transform, rather than adapt to, a situation. Design/methodology/approach – The process centers on constructing scenarios of possible...