New Power

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: Reprint

Description: 325 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing - and how new power is reshaping politics, business and life.Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in todays chaotic, connected age In New Power, Australian Jeremy Heimans and Brit Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our time - the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories or Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump; the unexpected emergence of movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and the eruption of darker forces such as ISIS.For most of human history, the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized and jealously guarded. This old power was inaccessible to the vast majority of people. But widespread connectivity has made possible a different kind of power. New power is made by the many rather than the few. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It works like a current, not a currency - and like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges.In a world increasingly shaped by new power, this revelatory book gives each of us a new way to understand the world and our role in it.

ISBN: 9781743540138