Jeremy Heimans

New Power gives a frame what is happening in the world and how to apply these trends in practice. It’s not about how technology is changing, but how power is changing. How to be more powerful in a way which makes the world a better place to live (not in an altruistic way). The main spine of the book is a diagram showing a clash between new and old power. What are the key principles and values of these two doctrines? So to get started, I’d like to provide the aforementioned picture.... (if you like to read my full review please visit my blog: https://leadersarereaders.blog/2018/11/01/new-power-how-power-works-in-our-hyper...… (meer)

You would have to say that the Coalition Government is terrified of the progressive membership organisation GetUp! Not only are there more members of GetUp! than there are of the two main parties combined, but GetUp! has proven expert in using ‘New Power’ to advance specific agendas. Despite two attempts to pass legislation to clip GetUp’s power, the Government has not succeeded in destroying the organisation.

New Power reveals some of the thinking behind GetUp! and the international Avaaz! Heimans and Timms describe ways to mobilise a community using social media, how to spread ideas, raise funds, and gather participants for action. They use case-studies like Uber, Donald J. Trump, #MeToo and Reddit to show how people seeking change blend old power with new power to influence others.

Some like candidate Trump used new power to consolidate old power values. The TED organisation spreads ideas by mixing old and new power to retain quality control of TED talks and invite wider participation through TEDx talks. Through this blend of power, Pope Francis and Candidate Obama are ‘Crowd Leaders’ using new power techniques to further new power values. After his election, however, President Obama became more a ‘Cheerleader’ using the old power structures of the presidency to further new power values.

ISIS is a clever manipulator of new power techniques in the service of old power.

The authors of New Power, Australian Jeremy Heimans and Briton Henry Timms write from experience. Heimans, co-founder of GetUp, began that organisation in 2005, before smart-phones and the spread of social media, with the intention of harnessing the internet to spread progressive ideas and change Australia for the better. Timms is CEO and President of 92 Street Y, a ‘cultural and community center that creates programs and movements that foster learning and civil engagement’.

I read the 324-page book in a 48-hour period. The writing is engaging; the stories are fascinating. The implications for action, whether in leadership or in engagement with one’s community are clearly described.
Anyone interested in changing the world – bringing home the refugees from Nauru, stopping the environmental depredations of Adani, or just reminding your politician that you vote – will find good food for thought in New Power.… (meer)

Numerous examples of new economy ventures, organizations, and movements show can be far more successful and efficient than old economy competitors or similar organizations relying on command and control. In New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World, Jeremy Heimand and Henry Timms show both remarkable success stories as well as giant failures as lessons for ambitious startups or established businesses desparately seeking a way to pivot, to borrow from Eric Ries.

Lyft is contrasted to Uber, Digg to Reddit, the Dutch Buurtzorg with nurses working for hospitals or other bureaucratic patient care organizations. The pitfalls of insufficiently involving the ones that brought you to the White House, as Barack Obama witnessed, and the way Facebook caused Donald Trump to become the next President of the U.S. are used. The hyperconnected world we now live in spark organizations like #blacklivesmatter, quick breakthroughs at NASA, and the survival of LEGO. Like water or electricity, this new power is most forceful when it surges. The challenge is not to hoard it but to channel it. IS, Pope Francis, and TED learned how to do that. Learn how the Ice Bucket Challenge became contagious and supported the ALS Association or the Maker Movement is challenging existing car producers.

The authors use lesser known examples from a range of sectors and industries to illustrate their Actionable, Connected, and Extensible 'model' for new power movements. Clicktivism and harnessing weak ties are not enough. The "I alone can fix this" (proclaimed by Donald Trump) mantra neither can save the world. Different types of leadership are explored, leading to an overwhelming amount of ideas to inspire you and your organizations to grow and survive in this dynamic times.… (meer)