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This Book Club is a private moderated community of practice to contribute to co-creating useful books. Over 2023-2024, we worked on "Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems." After a year of energetic, generous, and thought-provoking conversations (visible in the hundreds of comments on these now-closed blog posts and Google Docs), this book is now in production and will be published by Berrett-Koehler on April 8, 2025. You can learn more and pre-order it here.

Over 2024-2025 we will be working on a second edition of "Collaborating with the Enemy, which will be published in November 2025. As before, all substantial contributors will be acknowledged by name in the printed book.

If you're not already a member of this Book Club and would like to participate (and get emails about club activities including Zoom calls), please sign up here.

You can contact us by email here.

P.S. Adam has illustrated this page with photos of some of his favourite food fridge magnets.😀

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Adam Kahane

Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social impact company that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues.

Preface, Introduction, and Habit 1 (Version 2)

Here is a next draft of the first three chapters of the book.

Summary and list of habits (Version 1)

This short new Google Doc contains a summary of the core hypothesis of the book and a tentative list of seven habits. Now is the time I most need your feedback, as I am not yet confident about this list!

What everyday habits of systems transformers have we observed?

On our second pair of Book Club Zoom calls, in December 2023, we discussed our experiences with the day to day actions involved in transforming systems.

Preface (Version 1)

Here is a Google Doc of first draft of the preface/introduction of "Everyday Habits of Systems Transformers."

Radical collaboration to transform social systems

A new article entitled "Radical Collaboration to Transform Social Systems: Moving Forward Together with Love, Power, and Justice" that offers a possible foundation for the book.

What role should a system's victims play in transforming it?

A conversation with Francisco de Roux, chair of Colombia’s Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition.

Three ways to understand systems transformation

A note on three distinct ways people look at systems, how they get transformed, and the actions they see as important to effecting transformation.

What can we learn from our experiences of systems transformations?

On our first pair of Book Club Zoom calls, in October 2023, we discussed our experiences with the transformations of different systems.

What could this book contribute?

When you filled in the Book Club sign-up form, you were asked, "What do you see as the potential contribution of this book?" Here is a ChatGPT summary of your answers.

What is a system?

I want to start this book project by studying how various systems have actually gotten transformed, and working backwards from there.