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Praise for Adam Kahane’s Work
Business
“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 do-
ing 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’s
Solving Tough Problems
helped me understand that all our
pressing problems—be they strategic issues inside a company or so-
cietal challenges like conflict, poverty, or climate change—require
that those with a stake and the power to act come together in open
dialogue to create a joint diagnosis and a deep commitment to mov-
ing forward together. In
Power and Love,
Adam goes further and
deeper—into the kind of leadership that it takes to do this. A must-
read for every reflective leader.”
—Ravi Venkatesan, Director, Infosys, and former Chairman, Microsoft
India
“Our societies face really hard problems—poverty, injustice, unsus-
tainability, 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 any-
one, 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
Civil Society
“In
Collaborating with the Enemy,
Adam Kahane shows that people who
don’t see eye-to-eye really can come together to solve big challenges.
Whether in our businesses, our governments, our communities, or our
personal lives, we can all benefit from this smart and timely book.”
—Mark Tercek, President, The Nature Conservancy; former Managing
Director, Goldman Sachs; and coauthor of
Nature’s Fortune
“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
“Kahane takes the core message from his seminal
Power and Love
into uncharted territory: our messy, challenging, and necessary task
of working with others to solve intractable problems. He redefines
collaboration, testing our assumptions about the interplay between
individual agency and collective action. At once theory, memoir, and
practical guide,
Collaborating with the Enemy
is a vital primer for
people working at all scales to make the world a better place.”
—Ross McMillan, President, Tides Canada
“Nowadays, opposition and conflict are the new normal, yet normal
responses to them seem impotent. Amid this chaos and as if deliv-
ered to us by ‘special order,’
Collaborating with the Enemy
shows
us how thinking and seeing differently can help us navigate this
challenging landscape. Kahane abandons orthodoxy in taking on the
most intransigent problems, showing us the path to effective action
in a complex world.”
—James Gimian, Publisher,
Mindful
magazine, and coauthor of
The Art
of War
and
The Rules of Victory
“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
“In our field, the hardest nut to crack is how to address conflicts between
parties with fundamentally different worldviews. Adam offers a robust
theory and a straightforward practice to address this vital challenge.”
—Ofer Zalzberg, Senior Middle East Analyst, International Crisis Group
Foundations
“How many of us have dreamed of developing the art of helping others
solve ‘impossible’ problems and bridge ‘uncrossable’ divides? Adam
Kahane has taken that journey. Read, listen, absorb, and integrate.”
—Peter Goldmark, former President, The Rockefeller Foundation
“To transcend the perilous state in which we find ourselves, we need to
learn to collaborate with those with whom we’d rather not. Drawing
on his experience enabling sworn enemies to create peace in places
like South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Colombia, Adam Kahane
shares insights and lessons we can all use when collaborating with
‘those others’ is our only or best way forward.
Collaborating with the
Enemy
belongs on the same shelf as Sun Tzu’s
The Art of War
and
Machiavelli’s
The Prince.”
—Stephen Huddart, President, The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation
“Adam Kahane helps us overcome romantic and linear approaches
to conflict transformation.
Collaborating with the Enemy
provides a
hands-on critique of the myth of the uninvolved mediator and ex-
plains the art of working with the enemy.”
—Gorka Espiau, Associate Director, The Young Foundation, and former
Peace Advisor to the President, Basque Government
Government
“Mahatma Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’
His life was the unfolding of an even deeper truth: the need to change
himself if he wanted to change the world. Hence, his autobiography
was titled
My Experiments with Truth.
Adam’s story of his engage-
ments with people in many countries, whom he was called to help in
their efforts to change their worlds, is an account of his own realization
of Gandhi’s deeper insight. It is an honest and beautifully told story.”
—Arun Maira, former member, National Planning Commission, and
former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India
“Power
and Love
includes the story of the Visión Guatemala team,
in which a group of us, who in the ordinary course of events would
never have met or worked together, had an unprecedented experience
that opened up new horizons for us and for our country. Adam helped
us cultivate our dreams and ideals and gave us the energy and hope
to act to renew our society.”
—Raquel Zelaya, former Secretary of Peace, Guatemala
“Advances and changes in humankind have left the world with super-
complex problems—from achieving sustainable development to main-
taining peace and security—that require changes in the way we face
them.
Collaborating with the Enemy
gives us not only a privileged
look into Adam’s extensive experiences in high-level engagements to
address these problems but also his honest and brave reflection on his
successes and failures, and from these his articulation of an important
new approach to collaboration.”
—Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, former Head, President of Indonesia’s Delivery
Unit, and Distinguished Practitioner, Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
“The quality of a decision depends in large part on the quality of the
process by which the decision is made. But the political process in
my country (as in most) actually causes us to ‘enemyfy’ each other.
If we are to solve the great challenges of our time, whether climate
change or economic division and social unravelling, we must learn
how to collaborate with those we believe to be our enemies. Adam
shows us a way to do so.”
—James Shaw, Member of Parliament and Coleader, Green Party of
Aotearoa New Zealand
Academia
“Collaborating
with the Enemy
is a lighthouse for our troubled times.
If we are to find a way to reconcile the divides that imperil our com-
mon life, here we have a profound guide and a source of hope.”
—Rufus Black, Master, Ormond College, The University of Melbourne
“Power
and Love
is a rare and valuable book. Kahane has immersed
himself in the practical challenges of helping people effect social
change, and against this backdrop he unfolds a simple and penetrating
insight: that power and love are two axes that delineate our individual
and collective journeys. Either we master the balance of power and
love or we will fail in our efforts to realize deep and lasting change.”
—Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and author of
The Fifth Discipline

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