Moisés Naím was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine and the executive director of the World Bank; he better than most people explains what power looks like on a global scale. His book offers an original and convincing analysis of unconventional ways by which power can be gained, used, and lost, and it explains how power’s transformation affects our everyday lives. Naím argues that leaders of all kinds—whether in politics, business, the military, or religion—face increasingly complex problems, while they have far less leverage than in the past.