Charles Leadbeater author of WeThink 2008-09-17

Charles Leadbeater, also known as Charlie Leadbeater, is a British author and former advisor to

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Biography

A graduate of

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, he first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine ''

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''. Later he was Industrial Editor and

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Bureau Chief at the ''

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''. While working at ''

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'' in the 1990s, he devised ''

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'' (originally a column) with

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. He worked on

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, 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 book, ''We-think'', explores the new phenomenon of mass creativity exemplified by web sites such as

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, Wikipedia and MySpace. The book, which in a preliminary version is open to public criticism and revision, argues that participation and sharing, rather than consumption or production, will be the key organizing idea of future society. In September 2010 Leadbeater opened the

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, in

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. In a 2014 report for the think tank

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, Leadbeater coined the term '

Endies Endies (short for 'Employed, but No Disposable Income or Savings') are workers struggling to get by on modest incomes. The term was coined in 2014 by Charles Leadbeater in a report for the think tank Centre for London. The report identified the huge ...

' (short for 'Employed but with No Disposable Income or Savings'), to refer to the growing number of households in London struggling on modest incomes in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. In 2015, Leadbeater was working as a innovation consultant and was described as "leading authority on innovation and creativity" in 2020

Works

* ''A Piece of the Action: Employee Ownership, Equity Pay and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy'' (

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Papers) (1997) * ''Living on Thin Air: The New Economy'' (1999) * ''The Independents: Britain's New Cultural Entrepreneurs'' (co-authored with

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) (1999) * ''Living on Thin Air: The New Economy'' (2000) * ''Personalisation Through Participation: A New Script for Public Services'' (2004) * ''Up the Down Escalator: Why the Global Pessimists Are Wrong'' (2004) * ''The Pro-Am Revolution'' (co-authored with Paul Miller) (2004) * ''We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity'' (2008) * ''Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World Paperback'' (photography by Romain Staropoli) (2012) * ''The Frugal Innovator: Creating Change on a Shoestring Budget'' (2014)

References

External links

Charles Leadbeater's home page

at

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Home page of ''We-think'' including a pre-release draft, the final drafts of the first three chapters and some background material
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"The era of open innovation" (TEDGlobal 2005)

Watch keynote from Charles Leadbeater at Incubate 2010
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