Adam Kahane
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Introducing Adam’s latest book:
Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement
A manifesto for world-changers. Drawing on decades of work with leaders from national and organizational presidents to front-line managers and grass-roots activists, it distils seven potent habits that enable ordinary citizens to become extraordinary agents of transformation.
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“Solving Tough Problems 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.”—Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
"Power and Love is a profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges." - William Ury, Senior Fellow of Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author, Getting to Yes
"Transformative Scenario Planning reminds us that wise, humble, and collaborative leadership is the key to a better future" - Bill Bradley, former U.S Senator, Managing Director of Allen & Company
“If you are working to make the world a better place, there are few experiences more rewarding and useful than having your thinking turned upside down. Once is a while our mind shifts simply by reading a book. Collaborating with the Enemy is such a book.”—Peter Block, author of Community and Stewardship
"Facilitating Breakthrough provides us with profound insights into how to make progress towards shared goals" - Edgar Schein, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Adam Kahane worked with us on the future of our country. The four scenarios we built have come to life one after another, and today we are living the best one. In Transformative Scenario Planning, Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future. In Colombia we can attest that such transformation is really possible.
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos
Former president of Colombia; winner, Nobel Peace Prize
Kahane addresses an important challenge that we face every day: how can we move forward together in situations where we are in conflict and unable to construct a shared vision of the future? In doing this he overturns conventional practice—including his own—and proposes a new approach to collaboration that is better suited to our difficult current context.
Jan Kees Vis
Global Director, Sustainable Sourcing Development, Unilever
Adam Kahane proposes a solid and clear methodology, supported by his experience in the many processes in which he has participated, that invites us to defy our situation and to transform—not only to change—it, beginning by transforming ourselves.
Luis Raúl González Pérez
President, National Human Rights Commission, Mexico
Our societies face really hard problems—poverty, injustice, unsustainability, corruption—that are insoluble by conventional means. Conflicts of interest and profound uncertainties about the future are producing paralysis and inaction. Adam Kahane has, more than anyone, developed and successfully employed tools that enable us to create futures of shared progress and profit.
Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com, and author of The Art of the Long View
Transformative Scenario Planning is a deeply human book that offers tangible means for tackling the intractable problems that confront us at every level of life, from domestic and local to national and beyond. It offers realistic, grounded hope of genuine transformation, and its insights and lessons should be part of the toolbox of everyone in leadership roles.
Thabo Makgoba
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
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