"Adam's Solving Tough Problems helped me uand that all of our pressing problemsbe they strategibsp;issues inside a pany or societal challenges like flibsp;poverty, or climate gerequire that those with a stake and the power to absp;e together in open dialogue to create a joint diagnosis and a deep itment to moving forward together. In Power and Love, Adam goes further and deeper, into the kind of leadership that it takes to do this."
Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India
"It isn't eitheror; it's bothand. In this deceptively brief and clearly written book, Adam Kahane takes us through his own learning process to a way of ag in and on the world that is both effective and g. Intelligent, insightful, satisfyingand inspiring."
Mary Catherine Bateson, author of posing a Life and Willing to Learn
"Kahane is a master practitioner and thinker who knows the highs and lows of solving some of the toughest problems of social discord. Power and Love is both instructive and inspiring."
Patribsp;Dodson, winner of the Sydney Peabsp;Prize and Founding Chairman, bsp;for Abinal Reciliation
"This book is a mustread for business leaders who are ing to reize that to tinue to thrive, business must join forbsp;with i groups, unities, and gover to address the wicked sustainability challenges of our time. Kahane shows us how."
Diane Osgood, Vibsp;President, Business for Social Responsibility
"The ibsp;side of me says that Adam Kahane is unique and that it's his personality and presenbsp;that enable him to overe flibsp;and create structive resolutions to stalemates in business and society. But the hopeful side says that yes he is special but that his ideaswhibsp;he explains so ably in Power and Lovebsp;be used by others. He writes not from theory but from experiend draws out the lessons from a lifetime of f structive e to deal with the toughest challenges."
Esther Dyson, founder, EDventure Holdings
"This is a superb book: wise and thoughtful."
W. Brian Arthur, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, and author of The Nature of Teology
"If we are to move forward on the many challenges humanity faces, only through a symbiosis of power and love bsp;we enable the social ge we need, that both unifies and is suffitly creative. This book offers a glimpse of what a new praxis of creative collective a might look like."
Ged Davis, former Managing Director, World Eibsp;Forum, and former Vibsp;President, Royal Dutbsp;Shell
"Reg extremes is the challenge of our time. Sharing insights born from w in the trenches of the world's toughest social problems, Adam Kahane calls for the extraordinary measure of embrag the wholeness of our power and our love: the hard and soft in us all. By illuminating this 'unon way,' Kahane's message joins the stream of the world's most profound and enduring strategibsp;views."
James Gimian, publisher, Shambhala Sun, and coauthor of The Rules of Victory
"Mahatma Gandhi's life was the unfolding of the deep truth of the need to ge oneself if one wants to ge the world. Henbsp;his autobiography was titled My Experiments with Truth. Adam's story of his es with people in many tries, whom he was called to help in their efforts to ge their worlds, is an at of his own realization of Gandhi's insight. An ho and beautifully told story."
Arun Maira, member, Planning ission of the Gover of India
"In this evocative and beautifully written narrative, Adam Kahane shares his own journey toward a deeper and more lifeaffirming uanding of the relationship between love and powerboth in ourselves and in the systems we work with. His reallife stories and the lessons they reveal are pelling for all of us who work with plex issues involving multiple stakeholders."
Juanita Brown, cofounder, The World Café
"This is a ceous book. Too few of us who frequent the halls of power are willing to aowledge the power of love. Not Adam. In this delicate and sensible book, we see a necessary dialectibsp;an uneasy partnership of power and love that is essential to solving the problems we face."
Jay Ogilvy, Dean, Presidio Graduate School, and cofounder, Global Business work
"This is a remarkable book. Kahane fuses his real experienbsp;and earned wisdom into a clear new lens through whibsp;social ge practitioners and theorists bsp;better see how expressionsand shadowsof love and power shape the outes of their efforts to solve plex social problems."
Ross McMillan, President, Tides ada
"From climate disruption to health care, from poverty to war, the range of seemingly intractable crises we fabsp;today is enough to cause despair in even the most hopeful. Yet these are the kinds of problems that Adam Kahane has grappled with around the world. In Power and Love, Kahane uses these experienbsp;to explore why success in the fabsp;of plex challenges requires not just a new uanding of the problems but a new uanding of ourselves."
Jamais Cascio, cofounder,
"Adam Kahane has mined more than two decades of practibsp;to create a brave, cise, pelling refle about the mistakes he has made, the lessons he has learned, and the hardearned theory that now guides his work. Power and Love has a humility that is being and a depth that is inspiring."
Katherine Fulton, President, Monitor Institute
"An extraordinarily insightful and powerful analysis of what it takes to lead ge and to make a differenbsp;in society. Drawing on his own experienbsp;around the world, Kahane uses his skills of acute observation and ho selfrefle to figure out how to effebsp;deep and lasting social gestarting with oneself."
Fields WickerMiurin, cofounder, Leaders' Quest
"Bringing 'power' and 'love' together in resolving the most intractable social problems is not only unusual, it may also seem unreal. Adam Kahane makes it radically mandatory."
Njabulo Ndebele, former Vicecellor, Uy of Cape Town, and author of Fine Lines from the Box
"Adam Kahane is a ge agent of the first order. His wele and timely book will help readers refobsp;and strengthen their itment and ability to effebsp;mueeded unity and societal ge."
Mari Fitzduff, Professor and Director, Masters Program in Coexistenbsp;and flibsp;Brandeis Uy
"This book is written with great insight and revealing hoy. Adam is a wonderful storyteller, grounds his thinking in reality, and in this book gives us a path to making a lasting differenbsp;in the world."
Peter Blobsp;author of Stewardship, The Answer to How Is Yes, and unity
"Power and Love should be read and reread by anyone se
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