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1. 1 online resource (321 p.)

Summary

1. Power is shifting-from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. As a result, argues award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím, all leaders have less power than their predecessors, and the potential for upheaval is unprecedented. In The End of Power, Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of huma

Subject

1. Electronic books
2. Organization
3. Power (Social sciences)

Genre/Form

1. Electronic books.

Contents

1. Table of Contents; PREFACE How This Book Came About: A Personal Note; 1. The Decay of Power; Have You Hard of James Black Jr.?; From the Chess Board . . . To Everything Around Us; The Decay Of Power: Is It New? Is It True? So What?; But What Is Power?; The Decay of Power: What's at Stake?; 2. 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; Barrier to Entry: A Key to Market Power; From Barriers to Entry to Barriers to Power
2. 3. How Power Got Big: An Assumption's Unquestioned RiseMax Weber, or Why Size Made Sense; How the World Went Weberian; The Myth of the Power Elite?; 4. 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 Micropowers
3. 5. Why Are Landslides, Majorities, and Strong Mandates Endangered Species? The Decay of Power in National PoliticsFrom 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 Hacktivities; The Political Centrifuge; 6. Pentagons Versus Pirates: The Decaying Power of Large Armies; The Big Rise of Small Forces; The End of the Ultimate Monopoly: The Use of Violence; A Tsunami of Weapons
4. The Decay of Power and the New Rules of War7. 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?; 8. Business as Unusual: Corporate Dominance Under Siege; In the Land of Bosses, Authority, and Hierarchy; What Is Globalization Doing to Business Concentration?
5. The Power and Peril of BrandsMarket Power: The Antidote to Business Insecurity; Barriers Are Down, Competition Is Up; New Entrants and New Opportunities; What Does It All Mean?; 9. 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; 10. The Decay of Power: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?; Celebrating the Decay of Power; What's Not to Like? The Dangers of Decay; Political Paralysis as Collateral Damage of the Decay of Power
6. Ruinous Competition

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1. Harvard Library

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1. Description based upon print version of record.

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1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

1. English

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1. committed to retain