The End of Power : From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naim, Moises.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organization.

Power (Social sciences).

Local Subjects:

Organization.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (575 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Summary:

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: How This Book Came About; Chapter One: The Decay of Power; Have You Heard of James Black Jr.?; From the Chess Board . . . to Everything Around Us; What Changed?; The Decay of Power: Is It New? Is It True? So What?; But What Is Power?; The Decay of Power: What's at Stake?; Chapter Two: Making Sense of Power: How it Works and How to Keep it; How to Talk About Power; How Power Works; Why Power Shifts-or Stays Steady; The Importance of Barriers to Power; The Blueprint: Explaining Market Power; Barriers to Entry: A Key to Market Power

From Barriers to Entry to Barriers to PowerChapter Three: How Power Got Big: An Assumption's Unquestioned Rise; Max Weber, or Why Size Made Sense; How the World Went Weberian; The Myth of the Power Elite?; Chapter Four: How Power Lost its Edge: The More, Mobility, and Mentality Revolutions; So What Has Changed?; The More Revolution: Overwhelming the Means of Control; The Mobility Revolution: The End of Captive Audiences; The Mentality Revolution: Taking Nothing for Granted Anymore; How Does It Work?; Revolutionary Consequences: Undermining the Barriers to Power

Barriers Down: The Opportunity for MicropowersChapter Five: Why are Landslides, Majorities, and Mandates Endangered Species? The Decay of Power in National Politics; From Empires to States: The More Revolution and the Proliferation of Countries; From Despots to Democrats; From Majorities to Minorities; From Parties to Factions; From Capitals to Regions; From Governors to Lawyers; From Leaders to Laymen; Hedge Funds and Hacktivists; The Political Centrifuge; Chapter Six: Pentagons Versus Pirates: The Decaying Power of Large Armies; The Big Rise of Small Forces

The End of the Ultimate Monopoly: The Use of ViolenceA Tsunami of Weapons; The Decay of Power and the New Rules of War; Chapter Seven: Whose World Will it be? Vetoes, Resistance, and Leaks-or Why Geopolitics is Turning Upside Down; The Stakes of Hegemony; The New Ingredients; If Not Hegemony, Then What?; Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Traditional Power at Bay; Soft Power for All; The New Rules of Geopolitics; Just Say No; From Ambassadors to Gongos: The New Emissaries; Alliances of the Few; Anyone in Charge Here?; Chapter Eight: Business as Unusual: Corporate Dominance Under Siege

In the Land of Bosses, Authority, and HierarchyWhat Is Globalization Doing to Business Concentration?; The Power and Peril of Brands; Market Power: The Antidote to Business Insecurity; Barriers Are Down, Competition Is Up; New Entrants and New Opportunities; What Does All This Mean?; Chapter Nine: Hyper-Competition for Your Soul, Heart, and Brain; Religion: The Nine Billion Names of God; Labor: New Unions and Nonunions; Philanthropy: Putting the Bono in Pro Bono; Media: Everyone Reports, Everyone Decides; Chapter Ten: The Decay of Power: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

Celebrating the Decay of Power

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-5416-1597-2

0-465-06568-6

OCLC:

1020565717