"ada's lvg tough probles helped understand that all of our pressg probles-be they strategic issues side a pany or cietal challens like nflict, poverty, or cliate chan-reire that those with a stake and the power to act e tother open dialogue to create a jot diagnosis and a deep itnt to ovg forward tother power and love, ada goes further and deeper, to the kd of leadership that it takes to do this"

-ravi venkatesan, chairan, icroft dia

"it isn't either-or; it's both-and this deceptively brief and clearly written book, ada kahane takes through his own learng process to a way of actg and on the world that is both effective and carg tellint, sightful, satisfyg-and spirg"

-ary cathere baten, author of posg a life and willg to learn

"kahane is a aster practitioner and thker who knows the highs and lows of lvg of the toughest probles of cial disrd power and love is both structive and spirg"

-patrick dodn, ner of the sydney peace prize and foundg chairan, uncil for aborigal renciliation

"this book is a t-read for bess leaders who are g to regnize that to ntue to thrive, bess t jo forces with terest groups, unities, and governnt to address the wicked staability challens of our ti kahane shows how"

-diane osgood, vice president, bess for cial responsibility

"the cynical side of says that ada kahane is unie and that it's his pernality and presence that enable hi to overe nflict and create nstructive retions to staleates bess and ciety but the hopeful side says that yes he is special but that his ideas-which he exps ably power and love-can be ed by others he writes not fro theory but fro experience-and draws out the lesns fro a lifeti of fosterg nstructive engant to deal with the toughest challens"

-esther dyn, founder, edventure holdgs

"this is a superb book: wise and thoughtful"

-w brian arthur, external profesr, santa fe stitute, and author of the nature of technology

"if we are to ove forward on the any challens huanity faces, only through a sybiosis of power and love can we enable the cial chan we need, that both unifies and is sufficiently creative this book offers a glipse of what a new praxis of creative llective action ight look like"

-d davis, forr anagg director, world enoic foru, and forr vice president, royal dutch shell

"rencilg extres is the challen of our ti sharg sights born fro workg the trenches of the world's toughest cial probles, ada kahane calls for the extraordary asure of ebracg the wholeness of our power and our love: the hard and ft all by ilatg this 'unon way,' kahane's ssa jos the strea of the world's ost profound and endurg strategic views"

-jas giian, publisher, shabha sun, and author of the rules of victory

"ahata gandhi's life was the unfoldg of the deep truth of the need to chan oneself if one wants to chan the world hence his autobiography was titled y experints with truth ada's story of his engants with people any untries, who he was called to help their efforts to chan their worlds, is an aount of his own realization of gandhi's sight an honest and beautifully told story"

-arun aira, ber, pnng ission of the governnt of dia

" this evocative and beautifully written narrative, ada kahane shares his own journey toward a deeper and ore life-affirg understandg of the retionship beeen love and power-both ourselves and the systes we work with his real-life stories and the lesns they reveal are pellg for all of who work with plex issues volvg ultiple stakeholders"

-juanita brown, founder, the world café

"this is a urao book too few of who freent the halls of power are willg to acknowled the power of love not ada this delicate and sensible book, we see a necessary dialectic, an uneasy partnership of power and love that is essential to lvg the probles we face"

-jay ogilvy, dean, presidio graduate school, and founder, global bess work

"this is a rearkable book kahane fes his real experience and earned wisdo to a clear new lens through which cial chan practitioners and theorists can better see how expressions-and shadows-of love and power shape the outes of their efforts to lve plex cial probles"

-ross iln, president, tides canada

"fro cliate disruption to health care, fro poverty to war, the ran of seegly tractable crises we face today is enough to cae despair even the ost hopeful yet these are the kds of probles that ada kahane has grappled with around the world power and love, kahane es these experiences to explore why suess the face of plex challens reires not jt a new understandg of the probles but a new understandg of ourselves"

-jaais cascio, founder,

"ada kahane has ed ore than o decades of practice to create a brave, ncise, pellg reflection about the istakes he has ade, the lesns he has learned, and the hard-earned theory that now guides his work power and love has a huility that is beg and a depth that is spirg"

-kathere fulton, president, onitor stitute

"an extraordarily sightful and powerful analysis of what it takes to lead chan and to ake a difference ciety drag on his own experiences around the world, kahane es his skills of acute observation and honest self-reflection to figure out how to effect deep and stg cial chan-startg with oneself"

-fields wicker-iur, founder, leaders' est

"brgg 'power' and 'love' tother relvg the ost tractable cial probles is not only unual, it ay al see unreal ada kahane akes it radically andatory"

-njabulo ndebele, forr vice-chancellor, university of cape town, and author of fe les fro the box

"ada kahane is a chan ant of the first order his wele and tily book will help readers refoc and strengthen their itnt and ability to effect uch-needed unity and cietal chan"

-ari fitzduff, profesr and director, asters progra existence and nflict, brandeis university

"this book is written with great sight and revealg honesty ada is a wonderful storyteller, grounds his thkg reality, and this book gives a path to akg a stg difference the world"

-peter block, author of stewardship, the answer to how is yes, and unity

"power and love should be read and reread by anyone serioly itted to addressg tough probles"

-orris rosenberg, deputy ister of health, governnt of canada

"a tily book that ntas clear lesns about how, why, and when systeic, participatory, and nerative terventions, aid at shapg the future, work or fail"

-an wilkn, director of scenario pnng and futures research, stitute for science, novation, and ciety, university of oxford

"effective and staable responses to global health challens reire bess, governnt, and civil ciety to work tother partnership-but such partnerships do not easily deliver -- outes kahane's thoughtful and grounded reflections on his own experiences of suess and faire show the way"

-paus verschuren, senior director, global health partnerships, unilever

"as leaders the private, public, and cial sectors, we all struggle to navigate tensions ada kahane pots out that the pority of power vers love underps the all as long as we approach this pority with an 'either-or' filter, we will rea stuck; only when we ebrace it as an 'and' can we breathe life to chan kahane shows how to ebody this 'and' and to lead effectively and gracefully"

-zafer achi, anagg director, iddle east, cksey ≈ pany

"ternational nflict is only understood by governnts through the lens of realpolitik the liitations of such a strategic analysis of power is that it does not regnize the power of huan otivation ada kahane's wise and sightful book addresses this by tegratg the ncepts of love and power"

-gabrielle rifkd, director, huan security the iddle east progra, oxford research group

"kahane addresses the often-neglected need to create alternative cial structures situations where power, petition, and self-terest ntue even after deeply entrenched disputes have been 'settled' through nflict retion and negotiation reflective and practical: a t-read"

-charles vil-vicencio, forr national research director, uth african truth and renciliation ission

"this is not a book about siple tions to plex probles; it is the tale of a enty-year pilgria, one an's urao journey to the unknown, a willgness to take on of the world's ost plex and seegly tractable probles, at the sa ti workg on one's own tractability power and love is the antidote to resignation; it is about the hope and possibility that es fro ittg oneself to akg a difference the world"

-barry oshry, author of seeg systes and leadg systes

" the four decades sce art ther kg's death, chan ants across the world have ught to ground theselves his powerful and lovg practice ada kahane's book is a journey and a road ap to that practice"

-ichel lobter, ceo, oler, and forr president, redefg progress

"ada's urao exploration of his struggle with the paradoxes of power and love vites to our own exploration of this crucial tension our capacity to deal with our toughest cial challens-even our survival as a species-depends on our learng to work skillfully with these o fundantal drives"

-phil cass, ceo, b dical asciation

"based on his firsthand experiences workg with leaders-fro across sectors, anizations, and unities, around the world-who are dealg with tough probles, kahane's beautifully written book offers a jewel of wisdo to those who want to effect profound cial chan: learn to speak both the ngua of power and the ngua of love"

-elena diez pto, executive director, ros foundation-guatea, and forr executive director, vision guatea

"this thought-provokg book will help leaders of cial chan efforts undertake their challengg work ore positively and powerfully"

-bob head, ceo, skandia

"power and love expands and refes the analysis of lvg tough probles a renowned practitioner of the delicate art of nveng diverse and often warrg stakeholders to lve tractable probles tother, kahane has a ni for extractg fundantal sights and prciples fro plex experiences this sall book will stiute fresh thkg by researchers, practitioners, and policyakers everywhere who are ncerned with catalyzg staable cial chan"

-l david brown, senior research fellow, haer center for nonprofit anizations, harvard university

"power phes, love pulls ada kahane understands these o fundantal forces like few hands-on practitioners of nflict retion power and love is that rare jewel-a anual and a n"

-robert fuller, author of dignity for all, all rise, and bodies and nobodies

"power and love outles ada's unie approach to lvg probles, which enables people to ake sense of their world-past, present, and future- that they can ake it better"

-paul hanratty, ceo, long-ter savgs, old utual plc

"ada kahane takes systes thkg over to systes dog he tells stories of how separated parts are brought-lovgly-to servg the purposes of the whole of the cial order kahane walks his talk he is a prcipled pragatist"

-bo ekan, founder and chairan, t?llberg foundation

"power without love cannot sta the long-ter, ordated effort necessary to achieve cial chan; love without power cannot overe entrenched terests kahane's stories and his wise unsel show how we can work with these apparent opposites to create new worlds"

-betty sue flowers, author of presence and forr director, lyndon baes johnn library and eu

"ada's book is an iportant ntribution to our understandg of how to -create new cial realities"

-otto scharr, chair of the presencg stitute and author of theory u

praise for lvg tough probles

"this breakthrough book addresses the central challen of our ti: fdg a way to work tother to lve the probles we have created"

-neln ande

"a seal book excitg, vital, essential readg"

-edgar h sche, profesr of anant erit, assachetts stitute of technology sloan school of anant, and author of process nsultation and helpg

"our cieties face really hard probles-poverty, jtice, staability, rruption-that are ble by nventional ans nflicts of terest and profound uncertaties about the future are producg paralysis and action ada kahane has, ore than anyone, developed and suessfully eployed tools that enable to create futures of shared progress and profit"

-peter schwartz, chairan, global bess work, and author of the art of the long view

"highly relevant to the global challens we face today"

-debra dunn, senior vice president, hewlett-packard

"this book should be read by everyone who is ncerned with the ality of decision akg our deocracies"

-elena artez, assistant secretary-neral, united nations