The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
By Moisés Naím
About the book
Former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím argues that power is not only shifting, from West to East and from corporate giants to nimble startups, but decaying: easier to gain, harder to use and harder to keep. He traces the contest between once-dominant megaplayers and the micropowers challenging them in business, religion, education, families, and war and peace. Naim points to globalization, economic growth, a growing middle class, the spread of democracy and fast-spreading telecommunications. His examples include 89 autocracies in 1977 versus most of the world's people living in democracies now, shorter CEO tenures, and drones within reach of groups like Hezbollah. Micropowers can topple tyrants and break monopolies, he warns, but they can also bring chaos and paralysis.
Mark Zuckerberg made it the first pick of the year for his book club, saying he believes deeply in the trend of handing individuals power once held only by governments, militaries and other large organizations.
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Mark Zuckerberg (Founder/Facebook)
Our first book of the year will be The End of Power by Moisés Naím. It's a book that explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one I believe in deeply, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail.
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