New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Work for You Audiobook (Free)

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The definitive guide to spreading ideas, building actions, and leaping ahead inside our chaotic, connected age. Get the book New York Times columnist David Brooks phone calls ‘the best windows I’ve noticed into this new world.’

Why do some leap ahead while some fall behind inside our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the largest stories of our time–the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama about New Power: How Power Functions inside our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Do the job and Trump; the unexpected emergence of motions like #MeToo–and expose what’s really in it: the rise of ‘brand-new power.’

For some of human history, the rules of power had been obvious: power was something to become seized and jealously guarded. This ‘older power’ was out of reach for almost all people. But our ubiquitous connection makes possible a different sort of power. ‘New power’ is made by many. It is open up, participatory, and peer-driven. It works just like a current, not a currency–and it is most forceful when it surges. The battle between old and brand-new power is identifying who governs us, how exactly we work, as well as how we think and feel.

New Power shines refreshing light on the cultural phenomena of our day time, from #BlackLivesMatter towards the Snow Bucket Problem to Airbnb, uncovering the new power pushes that produced them huge. Drawing on examples from business, activism, and pop lifestyle, as well as the study of businesses like Lego, NASA, Reddit, and TED, Heimans and Timms describe how to build fresh power and route it successfully. They also explore the dark part of these forces: just how ISIS offers co-opted new capacity to monstrous ends, and the rise of the alt-right’s ‘strength machine.’

In an period increasingly shaped by new power, this groundbreaking publication offers us a new way to understand the world–and our part in it.