Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future - Softcover

Kahane, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459647785 ISBN 13: 9781459647787

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first book focused on how to do and use scenario planning - which is one of the most widely used tools in the world for strategic planning, change management, innovation, problem solving, and similar purposes - for social change at the community, national, and global levels.
Adam Kahane is one of the world s pioneers and leaders on this topic and he is the author of two bestselling books.

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Review

"Sixteen years ago Adam Kahane came to Colombia and worked with us on the future of our country. The four scenarios we built back then have come to life, one after another, and today we are living the best one. In this book Kahane explains how scenario planning can transform the future."
--Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia

"Kahane makes clear that the solutions to our big problems take our personal engagement, derive from our values, and reflect our connectedness to one another."
--Bill Bradley, Managing Director, Allen & Company, and former US Senator

"Every leader, policymaker, and citizen can learn and take strength from Kahane's central message: by working together, setting aside prejudices, and developing trust, we can change the future."
--Trevor Manuel, Chairperson, National Planning Commission, South Africa

"I highly commend this book. Adam has taken scenario planning to a new level, beyond the confines of business strategy, to deal with wider social and economic issues."
--Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, United Kingdom

"All of our toughest problems, from climate change to inequality, have complexity at their heart. Adam Kahane, with his track record of work for social and environmental justice, has written a powerful and practical guide to using scenario planning to transform such problems. This is a book for those hungry for new ideas about how to achieve change."
--Phil Bloomer, Director, Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam

"We all face challenges and opportunities that can only be addressed with fresh understandings and innovative forms of collaboration. At Shell we have learned the value of combining scenario thinking with strategic choices. Building on his extensive practical experience, Kahane extends the boundaries of this practice."
--Jeremy Bentham, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell

"This deeply human book offers tangible means for tackling the intractable problems that confront us at every level of life, from domestic and local to national and beyond. It offers realistic, grounded hope of genuine transformation, and its insights and lessons should be part of the toolbox of everyone in leadership roles."
--Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
"I highly commend this book. Adam has taken scenario planning to a new level, beyond the confines of business strategy, to deal with wider social and economic issues."
--Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, United Kingdom

"All of our toughest problems, from climate change to inequality, have complexity at their heart. Adam Kahane, with his track record of work for social and environmental justice, has written a powerful and practical guide to using scenario planning to transform such problems. This is a book for those hungry for new ideas about how to achieve change."
--Phil Bloomer, Director, Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam

"We all face challenges and opportunities that can only be addressed with fresh understandings and innovative forms of collaboration. At Shell we have learned the value of combining scenario thinking with strategic choices. Building on his extensive practical experience, Kahane extends the boundaries of this practice."
--Jeremy Bentham, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell

"This deeply human book offers tangible means for tackling the intractable problems that confront us at every level of life, from domestic and local to national and beyond. It offers realistic, grounded hope of genuine transformation, and its insights and lessons should be part of the toolbox of everyone in leadership roles."
--Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

About the Author

Adam Kahane is a founding partner of Reos Partners and of Generon Consulting. He is a leading designer and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to solve their toughest, most complex problems. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459647785
• ISBN 13: 9781459647787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196