Revolutionize Your World: The Power of Radical EngagementIn 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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.