Reos Partners’ Adam Kahane Releases New Book: Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement
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Reos Partners, the social impact company dedicated to supporting sustainable and equitable progress on humanity's most crucial challenges, is pleased to announce the publication of Adam Kahane’s new book, “Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement.”
Acclaimed author, systems change expert, and Reos Partners co-founder Adam Kahane unveils his latest book, Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement. Released on April 8, this transformative guide empowers individuals and organisations to drive meaningful change in their contexts by offering seven everyday habits for transforming systems.
The world is in flux, power is shifting, and uncertainty is growing. Kahane’s work is particularly relevant in today’s disruptive times.
“This book is for everyone who wants to create a better world,” says Kahane. “For all of you who want to contribute to creating a world with more connection, agency, and justice, and less fragmentation, oppression, and inequity. This is for you. This is for us.”
Drawing on three decades of working alongside changemakers—ranging from national leaders and organisational presidents to front-line managers and grass-roots activists—Kahane uses real-world examples and compelling stories of transformation to demonstrate how these practices enable ordinary people to achieve extraordinary impact.
“This book explains how any of us, whatever our position and power, can contribute to the long-term, collective, extraordinary, often-overwhelming work of systems transformation through practicing a set of seven daily, individual, ordinary, doable habits,” says Kahane.
The Seven Habits of Radical Engagement
- Acting Responsibly—not just doing what is expected of us, nor just whatever we like.
- Relating in Three Dimensions (engaging with others as fellow actors, parties, and kin)—not just in the one or two dimensions that we’re most comfortable with.
- Looking for What’s Unseen—not just seeing what we always see.
- Working with Cracks—not just ignoring or shying away from them.
- Experimenting a Way Forward—not just doing what’s familiar or safe.
- Collaborating with Unlike Others—not just with people who are like us and whom we like.
- Persevering and Resting—not just sprinting for a short while, nor pushing on until we burn out.
Praise for Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems
“This book offers a carefully reasoned, deeply human way for us to address our toughest challenges. Essential reading.”
—Juan Manuel Santos, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Colombia
“An important, beautiful, and honest work about the outer and inner work that is required of us.”
—Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
“Change is hard but Kahane offers a powerful and compelling framework for making it happen, and wise guidance for creating a better world.”
—Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI
“A guide to the inner capabilities for being human, interconnected, interdependent, and at our best when we are consciously nested in the web of life.”
—Mamphela Ramphele, Co-Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement and former Co-President of The Club of Rome
About Adam Kahane
Adam is a co-founder of Reos Partners and an internationally renowned organiser, designer, and facilitator of complex and conflictual multi-stakeholder processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders collaborate to address their most important and intractable challenges.
Adam has worked in more than fifty countries with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.
He is also a best-selling author of six books about this work, is a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2022 was named a Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
About Reos Partners
Founded in 2007, Reos Partners is a global social impact company dedicated to supporting sustainable and equitable progress on humanity's most crucial challenges.
Our proven approach enables transformative collaboration in even the most highly complex, uncertain, and polarised situations. Our methodologies create practical pathways for developing, implementing, and institutionalising equitable and durable solutions.
Having partnered with diverse teams in over 80 countries, we work with leaders and institutions deeply committed to advancing effective and inclusive collaboration on the most critical global challenges.
