Transformative Scenario Planning

Sixteen years ago Adam Kahane came to Colombia and worked with us on the future of our country. The four scenarios we built back then have come to life, one after another, and today we are living the best one. In this book Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future. --Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia Kahane makes clear that the solutions to our big problems take our personal engagement, derive from our values, and reflect our connectedness to one another. --Bill Bradley, Managing Director, Allen & Company, and former US Senator Every leader, policymaker, and citizen can learn and take strength from Kahane's central message: by working together, setting aside prejudices, and developing trust, we can change the future. --Trevor Manuel, Chairperson, National Planning Commission, South Africa I highly commend this book. Adam has taken scenario planning to a new level, beyond the confines of business strategy, to deal with wider social and economic issues. --Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, United Kingdom All of our toughest problems, from climate change to inequality, have complexity at their heart. Adam Kahane, with his track record of work for social and environmental justice, has written a powerful and practical guide to using scenario planning to transform such problems. This is a book for those hungry for new ideas about how to achieve change. --Phil Bloomer, Director, Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam We all face challenges and opportunities that can only be addressed with fresh understandings and innovative forms of collaboration. At Shell we have learned the value of combining scenario thinking with strategic choices. Building on his extensive practical experience, Kahane extends the boundaries of this practice. --Jeremy Bentham, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell This deeply human book 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