“Power and Love offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges.”
—William Ury, co-author Getting to Yes and author The Power of a Positive No

“Adam’s Solving Tough Problems helped me understand that all of our pressing problems—be they strategic issues inside a company or societal 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 moving 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 Vankatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India

“The cynical side of me says that Adam Kahane is unique, and that it’s his personality and presence that enable him to overcome conflict and create constructive resolutions to stalemates in business and society. But the hopeful side says that yes he is special, but that his ideas—which he explains so ably in Power and Love—can be used by others. He writes not from theory, but from experience—and draws out the lessons from a lifetime of fostering constructive engagement to deal with the toughest challenges.”
—Esther Dyson, founder, EDventure Holdings

Getting Unstuck:
Solving Tough Problems Through Power and Love
with Adam Kahane

Recorded 90-Minute Webinar | Buy recorded version

Description:
"Power" and "Love" are words that we don't hear very often at work. But these words represent forces that are constantly at play in dynamic human systems. We feel them when tensions arise between an organization's drive to pursue its mission and its desire to maintain the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of the system it's operating in. We feel them when an individual struggles to choose between advancing his or her own agenda and serving the needs of the team.

In this recorded webinar Adam Kahane offers guidance for recognizing the dilemma when your change initiative is stuck between Power and Love, and selecting effective moves for making progress by bringing these two complementary drives into balance.

In this webinar you will:

• Recognize how these drives are universal and complementary
• Learn moves you can make to strengthen your weaker drive and balance the predominant drive in the system
• Discover a progressive path for moving from falls to stumbles to fluency in applying these ideas to your working relationships

Presenter:
Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners (www.reospartners.com) and an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is a leading organizer, designer, and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address their toughest challenges. Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities and the forthcoming Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2009).