Adam Kahane

1 week ago | ssir.org | Adam Kahane

Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement Adam Kahane 200 pages, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2025 Buy the book » After 35 years working alongside leading changemakers around the world, I started to ask a fundamental question: How can each of us contribute to transforming the systems we are part of? My answer is crystallized in the notion of “radical engagement” with a system. This doesn’t mean participating in that system distractedly, resigned,...

Dec 8, 2023 | linkedin.com | Adam Kahane

We create systems and we live in them. Our interwoven social-political-economic-technological-cultural-ecological systems enable us—some of us more than others—to feed, clothe, house, protect, heal, entertain, and govern ourselves, and more. Our systems shape our actions and our actions shape our systems.

Oct 2, 2023 | linkedin.com | Adam Kahane

The way I started to write my previous books was to reflect on and derive lessons from my first- and second-hand experiences with systems transformation. This approach has worked well enough—I have had a broad set of experiences, some successful and some not, and have been disciplined about learning from these—but I see a big risk, in my and others’ writing, of self-servingly exaggerating the value of our own work.

Sep 23, 2023 | linkedin.com | Adam Kahane

I have started to work on a new book and am inviting friends and colleagues to join me on a two-year learning journey that I expect will be both exciting and challenging. The working title of the book is Everyday Habits of Systems Transformers. It aims to illuminate and connect work at two scales: The small-scale, day-to-day work of actions taken by individuals and The large-scale, long-term work of transforming community, national, and global systems.

Aug 10, 2023 | itexpert.work | Patrick Lencioni |Adam Kahane

“In a very general way, here is what a tester should know for a successful interview depending on the level: Trainee: this is a person with no experience. For instance, the one who has read a book on QA testing (let’s say, Kaner or Rex Black) or has finished a course. He/she understands the basic theory and knows why testing is needed at all and what stages it consists of, but has not yet worked on real projects.