Insider's Guide to the Future [Hardcover]

Edith Weiner (Author), Arnold Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0887231489 | ISBN-13: 978-0887231483 | Publication Date: June 1, 1997

THE POWERFUL FORCES SHAPING OUR FUTURE AND HOW TO PROFIT FROM THEM 1997 BOARDROOM FIRST EDITION

Product Details

• Hardcover: 117 pages
• Publisher: Boardroom Classics (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887231489
• ISBN-13: 978-0887231483
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,380,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emotile Society offers a New Perspective for the Future, January 29, 2000

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This review is from: Insider's Guide to the Future (Hardcover)

This short book delivers an interesting vision of the future. Weiner & Brown use this book to define a new term. The Emotile Society is defined as the combination of an emotional focus; where there is a "heightened concern for personal well-being" and a motile focus; where things are "fast-moving, portable, non-fixed."

It is obvious to most that the future will lead to a shift in what and how people do things along with what their focus is. This book offers an optimistic view that this shift will lead to more jobs, a shift to customization of services, increased growth in financial planning services, more emphasis on personal security and safety, and a rise in commitment to religion and spirituality.

The authors offer a useful and insightful comparison between the four eras: Agricultural, Industrial, Post-Industrial, Emotile. It is interesting and useful to make the comparison between such characteristics of the ages as the nature of "The Boss", "Retirement", or "Education" and this book does a nice job of comparing these as well as nine other areas of society.

The book offers some valuable scenarios for planners, business leaders and futurists, to ponder and examine. Many of the authors' insights could help the savvy investor or entrepreneur.

Overall, the book made me think and consider what impact the Emotile Society would have on future economies and behaviors.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a Book and Not by Insider's, May 12, 2001

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This review is from: Insider's Guide to the Future (Hardcover)

The title is misleading, and most people who buy this pamphlet misrepresented as a book are going to be very disappointed. This a 40 page stream of conscious review of various categories of life that lacks footnotes, a bibligraphy, or an index.

Based on my own broad experience and friendship with futurists of note, I consider this specific paper to be interesting if you don't read a lot and want a very shallow overview of numerous areas in the time it takes to fly from one state to another, but I find it very disturbing to read randomized references to ideas that I have seen developed and documented by others in a much more thorough fashion over the past 25 years or so.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and Enlightening!, March 7, 2000

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John Voinche' (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insider's Guide to the Future (Hardcover)

Dynamite definitely comes in small packages. Pound for pound the best glimpse of future workplace and lifestyle changes I have read.

Weiner and Brown's description of the relationship between the economy and society and how we are shifting from a post-industrial to an emotile era was insightful.

Should be required reading for everyone in business, future entrants into the workplace and those considering re-inventing themselves.

There were many "wows" in the book for me, but two stand out; revisioning must take place before reengineering, and the "never owned" product concept.

I plan to re-read this book as many times as I can stand it. Thank you Edith and Arnold for a great read!