Finally, the Mentality Revolution has encouraged people to question sources of authority. The Mobility Revolution refers to the capacity for people to change or leave situations. The More Revolution refers to the proliferation of people, information, things, wealth, etc. Naím argues power has eroded through the More, Mobility and Mentality Revolutions. It is far more sympathetic to Moisés Naím’s thesis in The End of Power. My life experience runs counter to Robert Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy. Employers are challenged to accommodate employees who have increasing leverage within the workplace. Managers obsess about employee retention because it is synonymous with productivity. Decisions are often negotiated with or delegated to a team. Yet despite these advantages, authority is limited. I was tasked with the assembly of a small team that I trained and taught. Today I am a manager of a small business unit. The true leaders purchased their influence through the donation of their time and money. But I quickly realized I had lost significant influence because I was on the payroll. I worked in politics after I graduated college because I thought it offered an opportunity to shape political strategy. Managers make concessions to their workers to maintain a productive atmosphere.
Leadership becomes a trap where it is limited in its options by those who are supposedly led. There is a tradeoff between authority and influence. But I found my implicit sense of power was entirely wrong. It was only natural to believe leaders were able to change organizations, businesses or even geopolitics to their whim. He is the author of the bestselling The End of Power and a novel Two Spies in Caracas.Early in my life I was drawn to power to impose my ideas onto the world. He served as editor in chief of Foreign Policy, as Venezuela's trade minister, and as executive director of the World Bank. Moisés Naím is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an internationally syndicated columnist. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today’s autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. He concentrates on the three “P”s-populism, polarization, and post-truths. In The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century, Moisés Naím turns to the trends, conditions, technologies and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. Why is power concentrating in some places while in others it is fragmenting and degrading? In his new book, Moisés Naím argues that the response to this question determines if our future will be more autocratic or democratic.
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