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

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The former “head of Social, Political, Economic and Technological Scenarios” for Royal Dutch/Shell’s London office, Kahane is now an international mediation consultant. He offers problem-solving guidance by way of narrative biography, describing his extensive experience in defining and tackling tough problems, those that “usually don’t get solved peacefully. They either don’t get solved at all—they get stuck—or they get solved by force.” The details of his interventions may be fresher than the advice they can be boiled down to: the most important problem-solving components, Kahane says, are talking and listening openly, reflectively and empathetically. Yet when Kahane describes the 1996 and 1997 meetings he helped convene in Colombia between the government and armed factions on the left and the right, the fragility of his concepts and the importance of committing to them in good faith become clear. A workshop he describes at the University of the North in South Africa, “a rural, apartheid-era institution with a history of conflict between radical black students and conservative white faculty,” makes for another of many compelling object lessons. Companies and individuals who don’t face potentially violent disagreement or carry bitter histories of violence will still find thought-provoking (occasionally verging on spiritual) discourse on handling difficult situations gracefully, productively and calmly.
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David Brooks, founding president, Friends of the Earth Canada
“This is a book about miracles … the kind produced by people listening and talking to one another, and building a new conversation from that listening and talking. When faced with tough, complex problems–as with global climate change or fresh water scarcity–such conversations are likely to be more helpful than yet more ‘objective’ analyses.”

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