The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems- either relying on violence and aggression or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise-are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches-power, the desire to achieve one's purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others-are actually complementary. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." But how do you combine them?
For the last twenty years Adam Kahane of Reos Partners and the University of Oxford has worked around the world on many tough and vital challenges: food security, health care, economic development, judicial reform, peacemaking, climate change. In this extraordinary book he draws on this experience to delve deeply into the dual natures of both power and love, exploring their subtle and intricate interplay. With disarming honesty Kahane relates how, through trial and error, he has learned to balance them and offers practical guidance for how others can learn that balance as well.
【作者简介】
Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners, an international organisation dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems, and a Visiting Practitioner at the University of Oxford and the University of Waterloo.
【目录】
Preface ix Introduction: Beyond War and Peace 1 Two fundamental drives 2 Our full world 4 Two pitfalls 7 An imperative 9 1 The Two Sides of Power 11 Generative power 12 Degenerative power 15 Love is what makes power generative 26 2 The Two Sides of Love 29 Generative love 29 Degenerative love 38 Power is what makes love generative 50 3 The Dilemma of Power and Love 53 4 Falling 57 Improving child nutrition in India 57 How to fall 71 5 Stumbling 75 Bridging divides in Israel 75 Building democracy in South Africa 87 How to stumble 100 6 Walking 103 Growing sustainable food in Europe and the Americas 103 Mitigating climate change in Canada 113 How to walk 121 Conclusion: To Lead Means to Step Forward 127 Becoming aware of both our power and our love 129 Balancing ourselves 129 Practicing moving fluidly 134 Stepping forward 139 Notes 143 Bibliography 151 Acknowledgments 155 Index 160 About Reos Partners 168 About the Author and the Artist 170
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