Adam Kahane is a partner in Generon Reos LLC, an international consulting and capacity-building firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Generon Reos is a member together with colleagues in Johannesburg, London, and Sao Paulo of REOS Partners, a global partnership that supports innovation in complex social systems. Adam is a designer and facilitator of processes and has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists. Adam is a native Canadian born in Montreal.
Adam Kahane gradually builds his own proficiency at balancing empathy (love) and resolve (power), and thus raises the game for all of us. Art Kleiner, Editor in Chief, strategy+business, and author of The Age of Heretics In this rare and valuable book Kahane 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, Founding Chair, Society for Organizational Learning; Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and author of The Fifth Discipline This exceptionally brave book pierces to the heart of how we must act in the world we so want to change. Kahane's willingness to look honestly at his experiences--working on the world's most difficult issues and in its most difficult places--is a model of courageous inquiry. --Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science