The Leadership Lab by Lewis, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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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 moredebt 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

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