Don’t Feel Sorry for the Powerful—Yet

The End of Power

We frequently bemoan our incompetent leaders, but what if their shortcomings aren’t (all) their fault? When he became Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry, Moisés Naím found out firsthand that the structural roadblocks kept his government from taking too much power also kept it from accomplishing anything at all. Naím visits Zócalo to ask whether we’d be better off if we put more power in the hands of our leaders. Below is an excerpt from his book, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In …