This book cracks the 21st-century code for political, business, and religious leaders struggling to keep pace with the times, taking the reader inside the reelection campaigns of Bush and Clinton, behind the scenes of megachurches, and into the boardrooms of corporations such as Applebee's International, the world's largest casual-dining restaurant chain.

pt. 1. Great connectors. Politics : values trump the economy ; Business : selling community ; Religion : a cause greater than yourself -- pt. 2. Great change. Anxious Americans ; The 3 Cs : connections, community, and civic engagement ; Navigators ; Americans on the move ; Generation 9/11.