HOW bsp;WE ADDRESS our toughest challenges? How bsp;we break through our most entangled, stubsp;problems? How bsp;we create social ge?
I have spent the past twenty years searg for answers to these questions. My work has been to help teams of leaders e together from across a given social system to address a particular challenge that all of them want to resolve but that none of them bsp;resolve alone. My role has been as a designer, facilitator, and anizer of these practibsp;social ge projects. I have immersed myself in these initiatives, and at the same time have paid attention to what was happening around and inside me.
I have had the privilege of w in this way, alongside my colleagues, with all kinds of teams, on all sorts of challenges, in all parts of the world. We have worked in the United States, to make cities healthier and more livable; in ada, to accelerate the shift to a lowcarbon ey; in bia, to create equitable development amid tinued polarization; in Guatemala, to implement the peabsp;accords that ended the civil war; across Europe and the Americas, to make food supply s more sustainable; in Israel, to deal with widening cultural and ideologibsp;schisms; in South Afribsp;to address critibsp;developmental issues in the transition from apartheid; in India, to redubsp;child malnutrition; in the Philippines, to unblobsp;a politibsp;stalemate; and in Australia, to effebsp;longdelayed reciliation between abinal and nonabinal people.
These experienbsp;have given me an upfront view of the dynamibsp;of social ge at many levels: individual, group, unity, society. I have been a member of tens of diverse teams; w together over months and years; engaging heads, hearts, and hands. I have had the opportunity to participate in mubsp;trial and mubsp;error and mubsp;learning. I have worked side by side with remarkable ge agents, social entrepreneurs, and activists, and been able to observe, from both outsider and insider perspectives, what works and what doesn't. Based on these firsthand experiences, I have written this book to share what I have learned with others who are trying to create social ge.
Over these twenty years, I have made two discoveries. I reported the first one five years ago in Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities. In that book I cluded that the key to creating new social realities is to open ourselves up and ebsp;to our own true selves, to one another, and to our text and what it demands of us.
Five years and many experienbsp;later, I bsp;see that this clusion was right, but only half right, and dangerously so.
Power and Love pibsp;up where Solving Tough Problems left off and reports the sed discovery. In order to address our toughest
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