{"product_id":"facilitating-breakthrough-isbn-9781523092048","title":"Facilitating Breakthrough","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new approach to helping teams solve complex and stubborn problems from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eCollaborating with the Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s becoming less straightforward for people to move forward together. They face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people from across more divides. In such situations, the most common ways of advancing—some people telling others what to do, or everyone just doing what they think they need to—aren’t adequate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne better way is through facilitating. But the most common approaches to facilitating—bossy vertical directing from above or collegial horizontal accompanying from alongside—also aren’t adequate. They often leave the participants frustrated and yearning for breakthrough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book describes a new approach: transformative facilitation. Instead of choosing the bossy vertical or collegial horizontal approach: It cycles back and forth between them. Rather than forcing or cajoling, the facilitator removes the obstacles that stand in the way of people contributing and connecting equitably, enabling them to bring their whole selves to the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for anyone who helps people work together to transform their situation, be it a professional facilitator, manager, consultant, coach, chairperson, organizer, mediator, stakeholder, or friend. It offers a broad and bold vision of the contribution that facilitation can make to helping people collaborate to make progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Adam Kahane’s books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thought-provoking discourse on handling difficult situations.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Profound . . . a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges.” —William Ury, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGetting to Yes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSolving Tough Problems\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize recipient\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePower and Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Ury, Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGetting to Yes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eTransformative Scenario Planning\u003c\/i\u003e, Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future. In Colombia we can attest that such transformation is really possible.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize recipient\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Across the planet we face urgent and complex problems that demand creative breakthroughs. \u003ci\u003eCollaborating with the Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e lays out a powerful approach.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Debra Dunn, Faculty Member, Stanford University’s d.school, and former Senior Vice President, Hewlett-Packard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Kahane\u003c\/b\u003e is director of Reos Partners, an organization that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. He has facilitated teams of executives, politicians, philanthropists, generals, guerillas, civil servants, trade unionists, community activists, clergy, and artists. His work has been praised by Nobel Peace Prize–winners Nelson Mandela and Juan Manuel Santos.\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Edgar H. Schein, bestselling author of Humble Leadership and Helping","brand":"Berrett-Koehler Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300864643301,"sku":"NP9781523092048","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781523092048.jpg?v=1767726619","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/facilitating-breakthrough-isbn-9781523092048","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}