The founder of #GivingTuesday and the executive director of 92nd Street Y, Henry Timms discusses the book he’s co-written with Jeremy Heimans, New Power: How Ideas Catch Fire and Movements Build in Our Hyperconnected World (Random House, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

New Power: How Ideas Catch Fire and Movements Build in Our Hyperconnected World by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms (Random House, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: New Power

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

One of the more engaging books to come out this season is the one from authors Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms. It’s called New Power: How Ideas Catch Fire and Movements Build in Our Hyperconnected World. In it, they look at how power has changed, and how technology has hastened the rise of platforms like Facebook and Uber, and how the movements of people can elect people like Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Movements like Black Lives Matter can gather steam and change the discourse, and both the Messer’s Timms and Heimans look at what’s changed. I’m joined now by Henry Timms. I’ll get him to tell us about this book, and more. Henry Timms is the executive director of 92nd Street Y. In 2011, he founded #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving. In 2014, he was named the NonProfit Times Influencer of Year, and one of Crain’s New York Business’s 40 Under 40 in 2015. This new book is published by Random House. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Henry Timms; Mr. Timms, good morning.

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