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.
©2016 Thomas L. Friedman (P)2016 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Thank You for Being Late
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- PaulF
- 17-01-2018
A book of 2 halves
The first half was very engaging I felt the 2nd half dragged a bit and got a bit nostalgic but overall a good analysis delivered in a interesting style.
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- lara
- 22-01-2018
Enlightening
What did you like most about Thank You for Being Late?
Such an engaging start and such and interesting author. It has a few slow patches but is definitely worth listening to right through.
What other book might you compare Thank You for Being Late to, and why?
The Four.
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- Daniel Burgess
- 14-06-2017
A fascinating picture of where the world is headed and the pace at which we are going there
This audiobook has been blowing my mind lately. Friedman has a skilful way of communicating such varied and complex topics in a way that I can understand. The stats and stories he provide leave me in awe at the current state of things in the world from technology to environment to business. Reveals a pretty astonishing picture of where the world currently is and where it is heading. Well read and skilfully researched and written.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-2020
Minnesota boring...
Struggled at the back half of the book listening about life in Minnesota bored me to tears.
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- Seth
- 18-09-2017
Old man voice, "In my day... "
Some interesting insights about our exponential future and globalization of technology.
Very self indulgent in final chapters. Why small town Minnasota, St. Louis Park, creates such successful people (describing self).
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