New Power: How It's Changing the Course of the 21st Century - and Why You Need to Know

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Pan Macmillan, Apr 19, 2018 - Business & Economics - 336 pages
Two visionary thinkers examine the defining issue of our time: how the nature of power has changed, and how this 'New Power' is already shaping our future.

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About the author (2018)

Jeremy Heimans is a lifelong activist, working to create a fairer world. He co-founded the online political communities Avaaz.org and GetUp (an Australian grassroots political movement), and as co-founder and CEO of Purpose he advises some of the most influential organisations in the world, including The Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Unilever. Recipient of the Ford Foundation's 75th Anniversary Visionary Award, he is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, and has been listed as one of the 10 most influential voices on sustainability in the United States by Guardian and as one of the world's most powerful LGBT people. He serves as chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Civic Participation. Henry Timms is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is the creator of the largest global philanthropic movement in history, #GivingTuesday, which has raised over $7 billion in donations for good causes. He is also the co-author of the international best-selling book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make it Work for You, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the 92nd Street Y. Henry serves at the Harvard Kennedy School as a Hauser Leader and is a Senior Fellow at both the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University and the United Nations Foundation.