Charles Leadbeater
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Charles Leadbeater (formerly known as Charlie Leadbeater) is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair.
He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine Marxism Today. Later he was Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief at the Financial Times. While working at The Independent in the 1990s, he devised Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a column) with Helen Fielding. He worked on social entrepreneurship, publishing The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur in 1997. He advised the British government on matters of the Internet and the knowledge-driven economy. His forthcoming book We-think explores the new phenomenon of mass creativity exemplified by web sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace. The book, which in a preliminary version is open to public criticism and revision, argues that participation, rather than consumption or production, will be the key organizing idea of future society.
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- Charles Leadbeater biography at Penguin Books
- Charles Leadbeater biography, Oxford Said Business School
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- Animated explanation of 'We think' (YouTube)
- "Welcome to We-Think" article in vodafone-receiver magazine nr.19
- Brief lecture on Leadbeater's We-Think theory
- We-think wiki
- Home page of We-think including a pre-release draft, the final drafts of the first three chapters and some background material
- Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional, video lecture at TED, July 2005.
Marxism Today' writings by Leadbeater
