Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking Listening and Creating New Realities

About this book

Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments convinced of the need to calculate the one right answer. After an unexpected experience in South Africa during the transition away from apartheid he got involved in facilitating a series of extraordinary high-conflict high-stakes problem-solving efforts: in Colombia during the civil war in Argentina during the collapse in Guatemala after the genocide in Israel Northern Ireland Cyprus and the Basque Country. Through these experiences he learned to create environments that enable new ideas and creative solutions to emerge even in the most stuck polarized contexts. Here Kahane tells his stories and distills from them an approach all of us can use to solve our own toughest problemsat home at work in our communities and in national and international affairs.