Job Shock: Four New Principles Transforming Our Work and Business [Hardcover]

Harry S., Jr. Dent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

A well-regarded economic consultant takes a close-up look at the future of American jobs and the current atmosphere of lay-offs and plant closings, finding room for optimism in the opportunities offered by new technology and work practices. Tour.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Dent (The Great Boom Ahead) maintains, "It won't be long before you... find something important missing from your career. Your job may vanish, or maybe your company will go AWOL." Using 50-year economic forecasts, the author delineates his controversial theories: the economic future is positive and predictable; information technologies will revolutionize businesses, creating teams, entrepreneurs and home-based specialists and generalists; and revamped companies free from bureaucracies and organized around customer needs will emerge. While well crafted, Dent's untempered optimism is debatable. Despite a carload of useful suggestions to prepare the go-getter for the future job market, he evades the issue of how a changing economy will impact on individuals working at low-level service or manufacturing jobs, or on those lacking language or computer skills. Illustrations.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Did you lose your job to a computer? Dent, a management consultant and speaker, "foretells" a revolution in the workplace caused by changes in information technology. The story is an old saw, but one with two edges. Dent asserts that although many of us will lose our jobs as "bureaucrats," information technology will free us to use our creative side to make our living. In the end, all of this "downsizing" will yield a prosperous and more productive society. Most of Job Shock is a well-worn litany of management imperatives, but there are moments of inspiration. The key to riding the next employment wave is to become an entrepreneurial consultant, not unlike Dent. Recommended for general readers.?Edward Buller, "Natural History," American Museum of Natural History
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 295 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031211835X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312118358
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,324,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harry S. Dent, Jr. mission as CEO and founder of economic research and analysis company HS Dent is 'Helping People Understand Economic Change'. As a former strategic consultant at Bain & Company, Dent's analysis states that demographic trends are the greatest drivers of our economy, along with radical new technologies, working together to follow a four-stage life cycle of innovation, growth, shakeout, and maturity. Since 1992 he has authored two consecutive best sellers The Roaring 2000s and The Roaring 2000s Investor (Simon and Schuster). In his latest book The Great Depression Ahead(Free Press), Harry Dent offers portfolio allocation strategies during an economic crisis, as well as the bad news that the worst of the housing downturn will occur between 2010 and 2013. Harry Dent also publishes the HS Dent Monthly Economic Forecast newsletter.