The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next

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Summary: Perspicacious! The ultimate visionary treatise for business
Review: Perspicacious! The ultimate visionary treatise for
businesspeople today! Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor are incredible speakers as well as writers and practitioners consulting with corporations.

Rating:
Summary: Perspicacious! The ultimate visionary treatise for business
Review: Perspicacious! The ultimate visionary treatise for
businesspeople today! Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor are incredible speakers as well as writers and practitioners consulting with corporations.

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Summary: Baloney
Review: The only thing I can say after reading this book is--baloney! I've never read a more useless business book such as this. I have no doubt that the author has never worked a day in his life. Get a job! Get a life!

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Summary: A must-read for anyone interested in the future!
Review: This book is a "tough read" -- you've got to concentrate and often re-read passages immediately. However, it is a book that will completely readjust your vision of work and life as the "Age of Chaos" emerges from the "Age of Reason." Given the authors' superb track record, we'd all better pay close attention to what they have to say here. The book works on several levels for readers: personally, professionally and even for potential investors. It should be must-reading for all entreprenuers at the very least.

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Summary: A must-read for anyone interested in the future!
Review: This book is a "tough read" -- you've got to concentrate and often re-read passages immediately. However, it is a book that will completely readjust your vision of work and life as the "Age of Chaos" emerges from the "Age of Reason." Given the authors' superb track record, we'd all better pay close attention to what they have to say here. The book works on several levels for readers: personally, professionally and even for potential investors. It should be must-reading for all entreprenuers at the very least.

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Summary: Learn what we mean by 'enlightened anxiety.'
Review: This book looks at techtonic shifts in social, economic,political, and technological relationships and how these have cometogether to bring the age of reason to a close. We look at who is doing well in 'crossing over' their own personal delta, and who is not.

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Summary: Five Hundred Year Delta sets the course for the next epoch
Review: Triggered by emerging new digital infrastructures, the world ison the verge of an entirely new epoch. The organizing principles oftoday's societies and businesses will alter fundementally as we enter the next millenium. To survive and prosper in this new world, individuals, businesses and governments need to understand these new principles, and the rules that will govern the transition. In the book 'The Five Hundred Year Delta', Taylor and Wacker present a provocative and very personalised view of the new organizing principles, and by doing so offer individuals, businesses and governments a new vision for the new epoch. A compelling read for anyone who wants to navigate the future with vision and confidence!

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Summary: A true thought provoker!
Review: Unlike other Futurist books, this one gives enough to get you thinking without spoiling the conclusion. Seeing as the future is what we make it, this book will allow the reader to take many mental excursions into the possibilities ahead

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Summary: Stimulating and thought provoking by disrupting assumptions
Review: Wacker and Taylor challange the way we think about most aspects of our lives. The idea that there is a paradigm shift every 500 years is an exciting notion. While the book rambles at times it always rewards the reader with a new idea or a deep insight. As a guide to get accross the delta of change economically, socially, culturally and psychologically the book is exceptionally useful. Even if the authors are wrong on every point (doubtful) the direction they point to and the ideas they gesture to are worth double the price of the book. We need to be looking differently and Wacker and Taylor point a way

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Summary: Awesome read for every forward thinking CEO
Review: We all need a functioning crystal ball to really excell in todays competitive world. These guys have made what I call 'crystal ball polish'. Whether you prefer to flip to the middle for the 'good stuff' or wade through what is in this case a slow beginning - just do it! You'll see real world case studies and examples extrapolated into a believable future. It's an intelligent compilation that should be worked into every forward looking business persons reading list. Once you've read it, you'll feel like you've polished your crystal ball. Really.