"this thought-provoking book will help leaders of social change efforts undertake their challenging work more positively and powerfully."
-bob head, ceo, skandia
"power and love expands and refines the analysis of solving tough problems. a renowned practitioner of the delicate art of convening diverse and often warring stakeholders to solve intractable problems together, kahane has a genius for extracting fundamental insights and principles from complex experiences. this small book will stimulate fresh thinking by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers everywhere who are concerned with catalyzing sustainable social change."
-l. david brown, senior research fellow, hauser center for nonprofit organizations, harvard university
"power pushes, love pulls. adam kahane understands these two fundamental forces like few hands-on practitioners of conflict resolution. power and love is that rare jewel-a manual and a sonnet."
-robert fuller, author of dignity for all, all rise, and somebodies and nobodies
"power and love outlines adam's unique approach to solving problems, which enables people to make sense of their world-past, present, and future-so that they can make it better."
-paul hanratty, ceo, long-term savings, old mutual plc
"adam kahane takes systems thinking over into systems doing. he tells us stories of how separated parts are brought-lovingly-into serving the purposes of the whole of the social order. kahane walks his talk. he is a principled pragmatist."
-bo ekman, founder and chairman, t?llberg foundation
"power without love cannot sustain the long-term, coordinated effort necessary to achieve social change; love without power cannot overcome entrenched interests. kahane's stories and his wise counsel show how we can work with these apparent opposites to create new worlds."
-betty sue flowers, coauthor of presence and former director, lyndon baines johnson library and museum
"adam's book is an important contribution to our understanding of how to co-create new social realities."
-otto scharmer, chair of the presencing institute and author of theory u
praise for solving tough problems
"this breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created."
-nelson mandela
"a seminal book. exciting, vital, essential reading."
-edgar h. schein, professor of management emeritus, massachusetts institute of technology sloan school of management, and author of process consultation and helping
"our societies face really hard problems-poverty, injustice, sustainability, 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, chairman, global business network, and author of the art of the long view
"highly relevant to the global challenges we face today."