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Thank you for being late [eAudiobook]

Friedman, Thomas L.2017
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We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike any he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them. Friedman's thesis is that to understand the 21st century, you need to understand that the planet's three largest forces - Moore's law (technology), the market (globalisation) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) - are all accelerating at once, transforming the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and community. An extraordinary release of energy is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world - or perhaps to destroy it. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to think about this era of accelerations. It's also an argument for 'being late' - for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we're passing through and reflecting on its possibilities and dangers. He shows us how we can anchor ourselves as individuals in the eye of this storm, and how communities can create a 'topsoil of trust' to do the same for their increasingly diverse and digital populations. Written with his trademark vitality, wit and optimism, and with unequalled access to many of those at the forefront of the changes he is describing all over the world, Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book - and an essential guide to the present and the future.
Main title:
Thank you for being late [eAudiobook] / Thomas L. Friedman ; read by Oliver Wyman.
Edition:
Unabridged ed.
Imprint:
[London] : Bolinda/Penguin audio, 2017.
Notes:
Downloadable eAudiobook.Non fiction.Duration: 19:42:00.
Performers:
Read by Oliver Wyman.
Audience:
Interest age level: Adult.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:
9780141986319
Language:
English
BRN:
303878
Electronic access:
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
WebEaudio BooksDOWNLOADABLEcheck availability online (Set: 22 May 2017)
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