Argues That The Leaders Of Today Actually Have Less Power Than Ever Before, Discussing The Changing Nature Of Leadership And The Modern Dynamics Of Power. Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 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? -- Ch. 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 Power -- Ch. 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? -- Ch. 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 Micropowers -- Ch. 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 -- Ch. 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 Violence -- A Tsunami Of Weapons -- The Decay Of Power And The New Rules Of War -- Ch. 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? -- Ch. Eight Business As Unusual: Corporate Dominance Under Siege -- In The Land Of Bosses, Authority, And Hierarchy -- What 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? -- Ch. 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 -- Ch. Ten 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 -- Ruinous Competition -- Be Careful What You Wish For: Overdosing On Checks And Balances -- Five Risks -- Ch. Eleven Power Is Decaying: So What? What To Do? -- Get Off The Elevator -- Make Life Harder For The Terrible Simplifiers -- Bring Trust Back -- Strengthen Political Parties: The Lessons From Occupy Wall Street And Al Qaeda -- Increase Political Participation -- The Coming Surge Of Political Innovations. Moisés Naím. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.