Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane

"Aprofound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges."-William Ury, New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Getting to Yes

To try to solve their toughest problems, people either push for what they want at all costs or try to completely avoid conflict.Adam Kahane argues that these two seemingly contradictory approaches are each a reflection of two distinct, fundamental drives- power, the single-minded desire to achieve one's solitary purpose; and love, the drive towards unity. They are inextricable parts of human nature, so to achieve lasting change you have to able to work fluidly with both.

Kahane delves deeply in the dual nature of power and love, exploring their complex and intricate interplay. With disarming honesty he relates how, through trial and error, he learned to balance between them, shifting from one to the other as though learning to walk-at first falling, then stumbling forward, and finally moving purposefully toward true, lasting reconciliation and progress.

For the last twenty years Kahane has worked around the world on a variety of challenges- economic development, food security, health care, judicial reform, peacemaking, climate change. He has worked with diverse teams of leaders-executives and politicians, generals and guerillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists. He has seen, up close and personal, examples of inspiring progress and terrifying regress.Power and Lovereports what he has learned from these hard-won experiences.

"This exceptionally brave book pierces to the heart of how we must act in the world we so want to change."-Margaret J. Wheatley, bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science

Across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia, Adam Kahane was a pioneer in the invention and application of transformative scenario planning. He is a partner of Reos Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Sad Business School.

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ISBN 13	9781605093048
ISBN 10	1605093041
Title	Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Author	Adam Kahane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	2009-12-26
Number of pages	192
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