The End of Power: So What Do We Do?
With the inaugural selection in Mark Zuckerberg's " A Year of Books ," Zuckerberg demonstrates that the readings will not be lightweight or fluffy. Moisés Naím 's The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What it Used to Be makes significant observations of our changing landscape. Naím, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, earned a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Business at MIT, served as Minister of Trade and Industry in Venezuela prior to the ascendance of Hugo Chavez, and edited the journal Foreign Policy . Naím deploys his relationships and observations, as well as strong concepts and impressive statistics, to weave together the thesis of The End of Power . Upon seeing the provocative title, I came at the book with a couple of lenses. First, the use of the word "end" occurred to me as an Aristotelian use, as in "final purpose." I wondered then if Naím w...