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I have spent the past twenty years searg for answers to these questions. My work has been to help teams of leaders e together from across a given social system to address a particular challenge that all of them want to resolve but that none of them bsp;resolve alone. My role has been as a designer, facilitator, and anizer of these practibsp;social ge projects. I have immersed myself in these initiatives, and at the same time have paid attention to what was happening around and inside me.
I have had the privilege of w in this way, alongside my colleagues, with all kinds of teams, on all sorts of challenges, in all parts of the world. We have worked in the United States, to make cities healthier and more livable; in ada, to accelerate the shift to a lowcarbon ey; in bia, to create equitable development amid tinued polarization; in Guatemala, to implement the peabsp;accords that ended the civil war; across Europe and the Americas, to make food supply s more sustainable; in Israel, to deal with widening cultural and ideologibsp;schisms; in South Afribsp;to address critibsp;developmental issues in the transition from apartheid; in India, to redubsp;child malnutrition; in the Philippines, to unblobsp;a politibsp;stalemate; and in Australia, to effebsp;longdelayed reciliation between abinal and nonabinal people.
These experienbsp;have given me an upfront view of the dynamibsp;of social ge at many levels: individual, group, unity, society. I have been a member of tens of diverse teams; w together over months and years; engaging heads, hearts, and hands. I have had the opportunity to participate in mubsp;trial and mubsp;error and mubsp;learning. I have worked side by side with remarkable ge agents, social entrepreneurs, and activists, and been able to observe, from both outsider and insider perspectives, what works and what doesn't. Based on these firsthand experiences, I have written this book to share what I have learned with others who are trying to create social ge.
Over these twenty years, I have made two discoveries. I reported the first one five years ago in Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities. In that book I cluded that the key to creating new social realities is to open ourselves up and ebsp;to our own true selves, to one another, and to our text and what it demands of us.
Five years and many experienbsp;later, I bsp;see that this clusion was right, but only half right, and dangerously so.
Power and Love pibsp;up where Solving Tough Problems left off and reports the sed discovery. In order to address our toughest challenges, we must indeed ebsp;but this is not enough: we must also grow. In other words, we must exercise both love (the drive to unity) and power (the drive to selfrealization). If we choose either love or power, we will get stubsp;in recreating existing realities, or worse. If we want to create new and better realitiesat home, at work, in our unities, in the worldwe need to learn how to ie our love and our power.
Power and Love is both practibsp;and personal. Many researchersacross politibsp;sbsp;peabsp;studies, ma, neurobiology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, theologyhave used a variety of framings and vocabularies to point out the importanbsp;of power or love or both. The purpose of this book is not to reiterate or review these specialized theories, but to explore how in general and in practibsp;we bsp;work with power and love to address our toughest challenges. Furthermore, I have not structed my uanding of these phenomena out of these theories, but instead out of sifting through and trying to make sense of my own most fusing and challenging experienbsp;of social ge.
Years ago I was amazed when I read the first pages of the sed volume of Lawrenbsp;Durrell's novel The Alexandria Quartet. Balthazar hands Darley, the narrator, the markedup manuscript of Darley's first volume: "a paper now seared and starred by a massive interlinear of sentences, paragraphs and questionmarks." The sed volume then goes on to relate a radically different interpretation of the same events that Darley had described in the first one, and the third and fourth volumes do the same again from two additional perspectives.
Many times during the past twenty years, I have been handed alternative interpretations of my own stories. I am moving along fidently, and then somebody says something that shows me things are not at all the way I think they are. Through subsp;disciplined reviewing of my own experiences, I have gradually built up my uanding of the dynamibsp;of social ge.
The book begins with "Introdu: Beyond War and Peace," whibsp;summarizes what I have learned. Chapter 1, "The Two Sides of Power," and Chapter 2, "The Two Sides of Love," describe these two fual drives that gee social ge. Chapter 3, "The Dilemma of Power and Love," explains why we ot choose between these drives but must find a way to recile them. Chapter 4, "Falling," Chapter 5, "Stumbling," and Chapter 6, "Walking," lay out a progression of three modes of employing power and lovefrom the most polarized and stubsp;to the most ied and fluidin w collectively to effebsp;social ge. In "clusion: To Lead Means to Step Forward," I suggest a way to work individually through this same progression, from falling to stumbling to walking, and so bee more capable of addressing our toughest challenges.
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