Thank You for Being Late
An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
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Mr Oliver Wyman
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman.
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.
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 twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet's three largest forces - Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) 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.
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- Timothy and Juliet Fallowfield
- 08-09-20
Brilliant
As expected from the wonderful Mr Friedman. A learning experience at all levels and should be required reading (listening) for us all.
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- Manuel Tânger
- 06-04-17
A faithful and hopeful portrait of our (Western) times
Friedman has a very interesting balance between technologist and humanist, from western (US) upbringing and a life spent reporting from the middle east to grasp the contrasts and trends happening around us.
This book provides an up to date description of our ages key exponential growths (accelerations) which we may understand intellectually but not really grasp intuitively but are shaping our World for the good and the bad.
His personal account of the ecosystem he grew up in serves as an inspiration to "making things right" at a community level in a time where diversity and its consequent integration are a topic du jours.
Finally, Oliver Wyman does a wonderful job of adding texture and life into the reading.
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- S K.
- 28-08-17
Beautiful book
Great stories and a fine journey. Did what all good books do it gets you thinking and inspired. A gem find time to listen and your world view will be changed.
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- JOAQUIN CAPDEVILA COROMINA
- 27-10-18
Sharp!
Very enlightening. Fast, quick, sharp. Well explained and makes you realise the changes of our era. A great learning experience. Excellent!
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- Amazonclient
- 18-07-17
Great Lines of Thought and Reflection
Really loved it. But long, and therefore difficult to hold on to the whole "picture being painted" by the author.
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- Kamin
- 17-08-17
Excellent beginning and middle then downhill
some great points and examples. way too centered on the US. the author talks about diversity and justice, and then surprisingly and hypocritically goes on to describe how to make America great again at the cost of other nations and the planet.
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- Mark H. Maliniak
- 02-06-18
mind blown
it's a long listen, but incredibly rewarding. I am not an economist or particularly political. But this book has opened my eyes and as someone who works in charity I have decided I want to focus my work on international education...as a result of listening to this.
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- Trinesha Reddy
- 05-05-18
Well written
Well written stories and collection of information from many other sources. It's a great read if you are a nascent explorer of the tech and social changes.
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- Tee
- 02-08-20
Wow, what a brain opener!
This book is fascinating and excellent. It simply explains what has made the world into what is is today and what influences has and continues makes it so. It has changed my thinking, what a brain opener!
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- CJL Review
- 27-02-17
Fascinating , Energising and Thought Provoking.
It covers current issues in such depth, intelligently and with emotion that I think is rare. I have completed listening and feel / think I must do more and encourage others to read/ listen to it too. One person at a time. So I imagine the author has succeeded here, on me! Many Thanks.
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