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Informationen zum Autor Jon Alexander began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle. In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In Citizens, he is ready to share them with the world. Klappentext 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to DictatorshipDescriptionCitizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.Over the past decade, Jon Alexander's consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has helped revitalise some of Britain's biggest organisations including the Co-op, the Guardian and the National Trust. Here, with the New York Timesbestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter the age of the Citizen.Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes.Unleashing the power of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya to the backstreets of Birmingham - and a foreword by Brian Eno.It is the perfect pick-me-up for leaders, founders, elected officials - and citizens everywhere. Organise and seize the future!Buy the book and start reading Zusammenfassung When businesses, charities and governments treat people as citizens, everything changes. We become equipped to face the big challenges of inequality, climate, pandemics and polarisation. So let's end the age of the consumer and begin the age of the citizen! With case studies from Kenya to Birmingham of inspiring individuals making a better future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Opening, page 15 Part I: Seeing Our Potential, 33 1. Citizens Everywhere, 35 2. Citizens By Nature, 73 Part II: Seeing Our Prisons, 93 3. We're All Consumers Now, 95 4. Once We Were Subjects, 115 Part III: Unleashing Our Power, 133 5. Citizen NGOs, 137 6. Citizen Business, 159 7. Citizen Government, 181 Closing, 207 Questions for Discussion and Reflection, 225 Writing Citizens, 227 References, 234 Index, 248...
