We all know the bad news. Our economies are stagnant. Wages are flat and income inequality keeps rising. The Middle East is burning and extremism is spreading. Frightened voters are embracing populist outsiders and angry nationalists. And no wonder: we are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible decline—or so we’re constantly being told.Jonathan Tepperman’s The Fix presents a very different picture. It identifies ten pervasive and seemingly impossible challenges—inc...

'Meeslepend in optimisme, maar prikkelt tegelijkertijd om nuchter te blijven.' - Trouw'Niet alleen maar ellende schetsen en wereldleiders bekritiseren, maar vooral ook: op zoek naar ideeën voor hoe het beter kan, voorbeelden van waar het wél werkt.' - de CorrespondentDit boek is anders dan andere journalistieke boeken: het vertelt namelijk alleen maar goed nieuws. De tien grootste problemen waar overheden over de hele wereld mee worden geconfronteerd zijn ...

A provocative look at the world’s most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems—and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them.We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the world. And the threat of ISIS and other extremist groups keeps spreading. We are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversi...

行政院前院長張善政誠摯推薦★入選英國《金融時報》年度最佳商業書從移民改革、能源革命、政治痲痺、貧富懸殊到極端主義，這一大堆看來難以克服的巨型挑戰讓我們焦頭爛額。每天的報紙報導、二十四小時不間斷的電視畫面與線上新聞，都告訴我們世界末日將近：伊斯蘭國的崛起、敘利亞難民潮、北京的金融弊端還有普丁的專橫跋扈。這一切，包括就業數字、年久失修的道路、罷工與飛漲的學費，都影響到我們每一個人的日常生活。但直到目前為止，許多成功的故事總是遭人埋沒。強納森‧迪波曼以我們面對的十大棘手難題為例，檢驗領導人如何以大膽而富有創意的手法，解決幾十年來世界各國政府絞盡腦汁，卻始終解決不了的問題，並且說明這些領導人如何在幾乎無人看好的情況下，以看似簡單不過的手段解決問題。針對新加坡的嚴打貪腐、南韓經濟的再次成長、印尼的反極端主義運動、巴西的家庭補助專案、加拿大的強調多元文化、前紐約市長彭博的市政改革等不同領域，迪波曼透過抽絲剝繭的仔細分析，證明我們確實可以運用普世措施，在截然不同的社會促進平等、...

Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award**'**Readers looking for good news will love this book. Jonathan Tepperman makes a compelling case, in lively and personal prose, that strong leaders willing to forsake political orthodoxy for good ideas can actually solve the toughest problems the world faces.' Ann-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished BusinessThe world's most intractable problems solved: ambitious lessons in leadership...