Timms explained that New Power draws strength from a set of values-transparency, the wisdom of the crowd, maker culture, and short-term affiliation-that radically depart from an Old Power value set that includes managerialism, expertise, and exclusivity. “Old Power” is concentrated, leader-driven, and functions like a currency that can be held “New Power” is diffused, peer-driven, and operates “like a current-something you can never quite own, but if you shape it, you can shape outcomes in your favor.” Timms argued that traditional models and values of power have undergone foundational shifts in recent years. The British research vessel famously slated to be named via an internet competition in 2017 enjoyed her maiden voyage as a case protagonist in Aldrich during a discussion of themes from Timms’s national bestseller, New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize, and Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age.

Timms, who has written for the Harvard Business Review, made his speaking debut at HBS in an event hosted by the Business Ideas for Generational Shifts club (BIGS) and the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, where he is a Leadership Fellow. Nothing short of the “key way of understanding our age-that what’s really shifted isn’t technology, it’s how we think about power,” said Henry Timms, president of New York’s 92 nd Street Y and president-elect of Lincoln Center, during a campus visit on February 27. What can an MBA student learn from Boaty McBoatface? BIGS hosted the CEO of New York’s 92nd Street Y and newly-named President of the renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a discussion of themes from his national bestseller, New Power.

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