This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

So I have Dr. Moises Naim on the phone, the author of The End of Power.

Dr. Naim, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks, thanks for inviting me.

Just a little bit of an intro.

Some people may have heard of you, so people may not have, which would surprise me.

But your book The End of Power has been recommended by everyone from Bill Clinton to more recently, Mark Zuckerberg.

Your former Minister of Trade in Venezuela from 30 years ago.

Your former Editor-in-Chief at Foreign Policy.

You've been an Executive Director at the World Bank.

You've written over 10 books, dozens of articles, and of course we're going to discuss The End of Power.

But I almost feel like I should be talking to you about productivity more than The End of Power you've done so much.

Well, I don't sleep much, that's explanation.

Actually, this is a naive question, but I do want to talk to you about productivity.

You don't sleep much, but sleep is good for somebody.

What have you done today so far? What do you do every day?

Well, my main activity, I am a writer.

So I do spend a lot of time reading and writing.

And the talk today was, I did that.

I woke up, I worked out, and then I have been reading and writing.

I write a weekly column.

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