Navigating the Future: A Professional Guide to the New Millenium [Paperback]

Philip Tarlow (Author), Mikela Tarlow (Author, Preface)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

Provides eight navigational tools for maintaining peak performance and developing greater clarity in personal and career vision. The focus of this text is on how individuals will need to transform themselves in order to respond to an age where technology has made information instantaneous.

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Based on their internationally successful seminars and consulting work, Mikela and Philip Tarlow offer a groundbreaking program for finding new ways of coping in a world of accelerated change. "Navigating the Future awakens our passion for a greater future. I recommend it!"--Marianne Williamson Best-selling Author of a Return to Love. Navigating the Future offers practical tools you can use to begin managing your future more effectively."-- John Gray. Best-selling Author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Based on their internationally successful seminars and consulting work, Mikela and Philip Tarlow offer a groundbreaking program for finding new ways of coping in a world of accelerated change. "Navigating the Future awakens our passion for a greater future. I recommend it!"--Marianne Williamson Best-selling Author of a Return to Love. Navigating the Future offers practical tools you can use to begin managing your future more effectively."-- John Gray. Best-selling Author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070633649
• ISBN-13: 978-0070633643
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,375,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Encouraging news for the future, April 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Navigating the Future: A Professional Guide to the New Millenium (Paperback)

I agree with Lee, this book is definitely a must read for anyone looking to the future and asking "what do I do now?" I like the way that the Tarlows have presented a variety of examples so that depending on how an individual learns (visual, metaphor, example, excercises), they will be able to "get it". I have been teaching in IT (Info Tech) for years and often had to bridge the gap between techies and non-techies. The Tarlows have made a great effort to reach a diverse group of readers who have different backgrounds yet all have the single desire to learn how to look differently at the world around us. Bravo!

Creativity and intuition is not easy to teach or encourage, they did a great job. For hard core techies... this is not a manual, you need to look inward, creatively and openly. Some of the material was not new to me either, but I'm enthusiastic to look differently at old problems. Overall I think there are many of us who will greatly benefit from this workbook.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holds the keys to THRIVING in today's fast-paced culture!, November 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Navigating the Future: A Professional Guide to the New Millenium (Paperback)

It is incredibly rare for me to find a book which so perfectly addresses the challenges of thriving in today's fast-paced culture. The one constant we all share is change, and the pace is faster than ever. This accelerated tempo challenges our abilities to cope with the increasingly complex course of modern life.

Not only do the Tarlows provide background to help explain our perceptual predicaments, but they have provided a toolbox of well-crafted skills & perspectives we all must have to transcend these problems. But the Tarlows provide much more than that in the process. They infuse optimism for the future -- ne, a PASSION for building our own individual and collective futures.

My company, Lifescope, offers hundreds of books & tapes to help people improve their lives -- but Navigating the Future teaches ways to better use all those other books, in this unique period of human evolution. You may believe as I do, that our world's technological advances have exceeded our psychological maturity. Metaphorically, we have put chainsaws in the hands of babes. It is vital to our survival that we gain skills for catching up. This book provides a construct for learning those skills. I urge you, for all our sakes, to buy and read this book!

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe you'll get it?, December 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Navigating the Future: A Professional Guide to the New Millenium (Paperback)

Maybe I just not with it. But as a participant in the computer industry for 30 years I've had to rethink, relearn, every couple of years or so. This book just seems to be a rehash and thorough mix of cliches: speed of change, chaos theory, mind/body etc.

Where is the precision of thinking? Where is the clarity of concept? Where is the skillful use of language to communicate?

Take this example (bolded by the authors, presumably for importance and impact): "If we took someone from the middle ages and magically transported them to our time...the chemistry of modern culture would probably blow their nervous systems."

There's some good stuff in there, but well hidden by nonsense such as the above.