Changemaker Playbook

The Game Has Changed! What would you do if the game for which you had prepared your whole life had changed? This is the question we all face today. The world is in the midst of a historic, dramatic shift. Our one-leader-at-a-time past based on a few people telling everyone else to execute their repetitive skill harmoniously, faster and faster, has given way to a present reality where everyone has the potential to lead in every aspect of life. The author calls this the changemaker effect, and it is the dominant driver of the explosive change we are all experiencing in our lives right now. You don't have to look too far to notice that everyday citizens are embracing their newfound power. The well-timed hashtag on Twitter, #MeToo, helped fuel the rise of a powerful grassroots movement to expose the prevalence of sexual harassment in every area of society. After gun violence in a Florida school once again grabbed our national headlines, #NeverAgain became the digital rallying cry for an attention-grabbing youth movement that brought student leaders out of the digital halls of Twitter to a game-changing rally of hundreds of thousands on the National Mall in Washington D.C. We have transitioned to an everyone-leads world. When making change was a game for a few leaders, keeping up with the speed of change was a challenge for the rest of us. Now, change is a game of the many, and that's causing explosive disruption on a constant basis. There have been major societal paradigm shifts in history before, but what we're experiencing now is the transition from hundreds of years of repetition-making to an everyone-empowered present, in which everyone initiates change--and ours the first generation to navigate this reordered reality. Our Everything world requires a new playbook. Everyone must be equipped to play in the new game. We all have to figure out how to keep pace with and organize ourselves in light of this revolutionary new transformation--from how we run our businesses, to how we manage our careers, to how we fulfill our civic responsibilities, to how we prepare our kids to flourish. The great divide we face today isn't between the Right and Left, Red and Blue, or rich and poor--it's the emerging gap between the few who have the skills to survive and thrive in the empowerment age with its fire hose of technology-driven social change, versus the many who don't. Changemaker Playbook is filled with powerful stories, from the world's most recognizable changemakers, to everyday changemakers you will never forget, with specific advice for how to command every aspect of today's transformed societal landscape. Based on the author's discoveries about leading in change from front-edge innovators -- business and social entrepreneurs, educators, media thought leaders, and youth changemakers -- readers can apply the principles in this book to the new everyone-a-changemaker world. An unforgettable tutorial on the principles of empathy-based ethics, co-creative teamwork, and the ins and outs of the new game, Changemaker Playbook is as much a new leadership handbook as it is an individual and organizational achievement playbook. This is the new playbook for the new game.