Lecture on Social Innovation: Adam Kahane on Power & Love

Submitted by Tamarack on May 29, 2013 - 8:53am
University of Waterloo
Adam Kahane discusses power, our desire to achieve our own purposes, and love, our desire to heal the whole, as complementary drives that are both required to effect sustainable social innovation and change. Kahane drew on his extensive experience with designing and leading complex multi-stakeholder change processes to offer practical guidance for effectively balancing these two--always present, usually polarised, often undiscussable--drives. Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners, an international organization dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems. Adam 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. He 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.