Historian, Writer, Adviser
Brook’s background combines an unusual breadth of academic, consulting and management experience. After completing advanced degrees in history, he became an award-winning university professor. He subsequently reinvented himself as a media and technology executive, and then again as a strategy and organizational consultant, as a partner at McKinsey & Co, and later, as the principal of […]
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The Civic Bargain
A powerful case for democracy and how it can survive, based on historical analysis of civilization’s best known, long-enduring democracies (ancient Athens & Rome, modern Britain & America). Democracy flourishes only if citizens are willing to adapt and keep relevant the agreement—“the civic bargain”–that they make with one another to govern themselves, free of a boss. It is a lesson modern democracies must confront to survive the continuing challenges of today’s world.
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