Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems - by Adam Kahane (Paperback)

About the Book

"Adam Kahane's Everyday Habits of Systems Transformers offers a set of straightforward, high-leverage everyday personal practices that are explicitly linked to transforming larger social systems. More and more people are coming to understand that the way the world is designed isn't working for most, and they can neither ignore this reality nor change it just through acting on their own. Systemic transformation, rather than just individual leadership or personal growth practices, is necessary to create a better world. What practices enable leaders to transform systems? This book aims to inspire and instruct the reader on practical, day-to-day ways to work more effectively with others across deep political, economic, social, cultural, and sectoral differences to transform social systems. Incorporating real stories, it is suspenseful and human, full of trial and error, failure as well as success, in pursuit of a better world"--

Book Synopsis

Revolutionize Your World: The Power of Radical Engagement

In a world crying out for change, Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems is your guidebook for action. Adam Kahane, the best-selling author of Collaborating with the Enemy and a global authority on solving tough problems, delivers game-changing advice for anyone ready to make a difference.

This is a manifesto for world-changers. Drawing on decades of work with leaders from national and organizational presidents to front-line managers and grass-roots activists, Kahane distills seven potent habits that enable ordinary citizens to become extraordinary agents of transformation.

Imagine:

• Cracking open entrenched systems with simple actions
• Collaborating across deep divides to achieve the impossible
• Uncovering hidden leverage points others miss
• Persevering through setbacks with renewed purpose and energy

Through riveting real-world examples, Kahane shows how these habits have sparked revolutions, brokered peace, and reimagined societies. Now he's handing you the keys to that transformative power.

Whether you're battling climate change, reinventing healthcare, or simply trying to make your community better, this book is your essential guide. It's time to stop feeling powerless and start creating the change you want to see.

Don't just survive in a changing world--step in to transform it.

Review Quotes

"This book offers a carefully reasoned, deeply human way for us to address our toughest challenges. Essential reading."
--Juan Manuel Santos, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Colombia

"We face multiple global crises that we can solve if many more of us act, urgently and wisely. Kahane explains how."
--Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders and former President of Ireland

"An important, beautiful, and honest work about the outer and inner work that is required of us."
--Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

"Change is hard, but Kahane offers a powerful and compelling framework for making it happen, and wise guidance for creating a better world."
--Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI

"A guide to the inner capabilities for being human, interconnected, interdependent, and at our best when we are consciously nested in the web of life."
--Mamphela Ramphele, cofounder of the Black Consciousness Movement and former Co-President of The Club of Rome

About the Author

Adam Kahane has more than 30 years of experience in more than 50 countries working with thousands of leaders to transform social systems at all scales (organization, city, country, globe). His work has addressed many of the most important challenges of our time, including racial oppression, violent conflict among warring groups in countries, insecurity and inequity, drug problems, social unrest, unsustainable food systems, and climate change. Kahane is a bestselling author whose five previous books each have sold between 20,000 and 100,000 copies: Solving Tough Problems, Power and Love, Transformative Scenario Planning, Collaborating with the Enemy, and Facilitating Breakthrough. He is the director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues.