![]() New power is what fuels the rise of participatory platforms like Facebook and YouTube, peer-based services like Uber and Airbnb, and rapid-fire social movements like #BlackLivesMatter. ![]() The challenge with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it. Like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges. "New power" is power made by many it is open, participatory, and peer-driven. But our ubiquitous connectivity has made possible a new form of power, one that operates differently, like a current. Once gained, old power is jealously guarded, and the powerful spend it carefully, like currency. To get ahead or get things done, you mastered "old power": closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in our hyperconnected age.For the vast majority of human history, the rules of power were clear. ![]()
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