Insight into the Future: Six Aspects of Globalization

Author: Patrick Dixon
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The author compares the future to a cube, with its six faces representing rapid development, urbanization, tribalization, globalization, radicalism, and ethics. These six aspects encompass all the factors that will humans in the new millennium. The author makes predictions about various trends with solid data, a comprehensive perspective, and thorough arguments. While the specific timing of these predicted events may have some errors, there is no doubt that they will inevitably occur. The author also includes carefully summarized management challenges and personal challenges at the end of each chapter, providing managers and individuals with ample preparation. Dr. Dixon is the high priest of his generation, but he doesn't sit in the Apollo Temple at Delphi listening to obscure, mysterious revelations to make his prophecies. Instead, he observes the global landscape, analyzes major trends, and gives you a foresight of these impending challenges, guiding you on how to face them with ease and seize the initiative, so that you can better manage and live in the new millennium. For business managers eager to survive and thrive in the new millennium, this book is their essential desk reference; for individuals seeking to better enjoy the conveniences of technology and adapt to the future society, it is also a reliable guide for life and mental preparation. The author compares the future to a cube, with its six faces representing rapid development, urbanization, tribalization, radicalism, and ethics. These six aspects encompass all the factors that will humans in the new millennium. The author makes predictions about various trends with solid data, a comprehensive perspective, and thorough arguments.