Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• About the Authors
• Foreword by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
• Foreword by The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• Introduction
• 1    Understanding the Effects of Overload: Information and Inundation
  • Left-brain process
  • Right-brain process
  • The overload
  • How it changes us
  • The algorithms make this worse
  • News is about profits, too
  • Is the overload hurting our creativity?
  • The sort of people we’re becoming
  • The siren call of the numbers
  • Analysis versus parenthesis
  • Our socio-economic perspective also dictates our understanding
  • How this changes the leader’s mandate
  • Spotting the signs of a waterboarded leader
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 2    Understanding a New Type of Economics: Internationalism and Insularity
  • Fear stalks the economic landscape
  • Fear has no respect for data
  • Offshore revelations
  • Avoiders and evaders
  • The wrong sort of data
  • So don’t tell me there’s no inflation
  • How inflation is hidden
  • Hedonics
  • The topography of inflation
  • Meet the cause of inflation – debt, debt and more debt
  • Bad leadership hides bad news
  • Nothing new under the sun
  • In office, but not in power
  • Is the Internet deflationary or inflationary?
  • Time to get nerdy
  • The ultimate solution to inflation – smash it up
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • A booming stock market
  • It’s the same the whole world over/It’s the poor what gets the blame/It’s the rich what gets the pleasure/Ain’t it all a bloomin’ shame?
  • Living in the present, but destroying the future
  • Leadership implications of these economic changes
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 3    Understanding a New Type of Behaviour: Immediacy and Impatience
  • I want it now!
  • How we have become ‘Amazonified’
  • The consistent rise in disposable incomes
  • Patience is not one virtue, but three
  • Patience as a key factor in efficiency
  • Impatience and stress
  • Can patience be learnt?
  • Impatience and relationships
  • The effect on politics, leadership and trust
  • The impatience for change, even just the perception of change
  • Impatience is the source of division
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 4    Understanding a New Philosophy: Intelligence and Insurgency
  • What is intelligence?
  • Intelligence as enlightenment
  • The axis of leadership challenge
  • Why (the f**k) is everyone so angry?
  • How bad is the problem?
  • The leadership opportunity
  • A new commercial opportunity, too?
  • Mainstream media make us angry
  • Social media make us angry, too
  • Disintermediation
  • The leader’s critique
  • Rule 34
  • The case for mindfulness
  • Resolving conflict
  • Greed is good?
  • The ultimate selfishness
  • Empathy
  • The process of non-doing
  • The role of humour
  • Creative provenance
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 5    Understanding Geopolitics and the New Infrastructure: Infrastructure and Isolation
  • Geography is destiny
  • One Belt, One Road, One Circle (BRI) – a brand-new global infrastructure
  • The biggest infrastructure project the world has ever seen
  • Defence spending is rising
  • Old and new causes: but what about the wall?
  • A new multipolar world with walls
  • Conflicts cause migration and vice versa
  • Resource infrastructure
  • Environment in its widest sense
  • Protein
  • Energy and the end of oil
  • Centralization versus decentralization
  • Infrastructure is the new politics
  • Rules
  • Diplomacy
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 6    Understanding the Data Sphere: Innovation and Intimidation
  • The rise of the robots?
  • The Internet of Things
  • Introducing the Data Sphere
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • The bodyNET
  • Autonomy
  • Drones
  • Energy and batteries
  • A new currency
  • Green stuff replaced by not very green stuff
  • Super computing
  • The dark web
  • Model citizens?
  • Peer group ratings
  • Human qualities
  • The end of the affair?
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 7    Understanding Gender: Inclusivity and Inequality
  • Assumptions
  • Understanding gender
  • Problems with the playing field
  • Are women more emotionally intelligent?
  • Do women collaborate more?
  • Introducing the LAB Brain Model
  • What is androcentricity?
  • Who was the internet built by and for whom?
  • Gender differences on social media
  • Overconfidence as a cause of our problems
  • Could it be the faster we move, the more superficial our perception becomes?
  • An inherent bias against diversity?
  • A war on men?
  • Training for confidence
  • Techniques for boosting confidence
  • Techniques for breaking the circle
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 8    Understanding a New World: Inspiration and Inversion
  • Through the looking glass
  • Can we trust our leaders?
  • A truly mixed reality
  • Should we still work hard and save?
  • Should we be patient and work together to get results?
  • Is education worth it?
  • Looking for a new domestic politics
  • Now our friends spy on us, too
  • Inversion and alignment
  • Is success always rewarded?
  • Is it only the bad guys who use torture?
  • Does morality matter?
  • Whatever happened to the future?
  • A new multipolar world with walls
  • Globalism is over
  • Conclusions
  • Endnotes
• 9    The Global Leaders’ Narrative
  • Learn the lessons of the past
  • Study the present
  • Prepare for the future
  • Understand how skills and values have changed
  • Commit to the leadership spirit
  • Endnotes
• Index
• Backcover

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