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• 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