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
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Leadership, Politics, and Business.
The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century in government, business, and beyond.Power is shifting from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble startups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use ...
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