Radical Engagement: Adam Kahane On Working With Generals And Guerrillas To Make Change From The Inside
Seventy percent of organizational change initiatives fail. Not because leaders lack conviction, but because they're using the wrong model. Adam Kahane, co-founder of Reos Partners and author of Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems, spent 35 years facilitating change in some of the world's most intractable conflicts, from post-apartheid South Africa to Colombia's peace process. His argument: you don't transform a system by blowing it up or waiting for perfect conditions. Instead, you find the cracks – the places where things are already shifting – and you work with what's moving from there. This practice is called "radical engagement," and it’s more effective than almost anything else on offer.