Power Your Way through Y2K [Paperback]

P. J. Wylie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1999

Hand-wringing doesn't solve Y2K!

P. J. Wylie writes about Y2K with a sense of joy and a sense of humor -- both of which are needed now that the End-Game of Y2K is upon us! Ms. Wylie sets up three scenarios for Y2K:

Do nothing. You snooze. You lose. End of story.

"Due diligence." Prepare yourself and your company. Your business survives, but what about the rest of your town?

DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! Set up CityPlan 2000, a clearinghouse of information for your community. For individuals: information on Personal Preparedness, the status of Y2K in the US and in the world, questions to ask your utility companies. For small businesses: "How to select a consultant," "Due Diligence," and "Contingency Planning."

Small and medium-sized businesses compose HALF of our domestic economy! And since half of these businesses have still done nothing about Y2K, that means that 25% of our economy is AT RISK due to these unprepared businesses in the midst of our own towns!

Convert these businesses from being a millstone around your town's neck into being part of the life raft floating the whole town safely over the floodwaters of Y2K.

Save your job! Hand this book to your boss.

Save your business! Use the checklists to find a consultant and to make sure the consultant is doing the right thing. Plan and test the contingency plans you need.

Save the 25% of your town currently at risk! Use CityPlan 2000 to set up clearinghouses of information for all your town's small businesses. Learn how to set up a bulletin board of community needs for all the town's residents. Find out how to get corporate funding, how to involve the schools, how to link government and private needs.

All the information is here for you to be a hero to your family, your business, and your community. You are the missing ingredient to get this started. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A "TECHIE" TO SAVE YOUR TOWN! Start now to have the proper lead time to get everything finished on time!

Celebrate New Year's with joy instead of apprehension! Power Your Way through Y2K!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Power Your Way through Y2K is an excellent guide to municipal Y2K planning. [] Leaders that are ready to respond can quickly do so using the superb methodology in CityPlan 2000. I highly recommend Power Your Way through Y2K to local government leaders. -- Steve Davis, Americas top authority on Year 2000 and municipal governments

This is the book that I wish I had 2 years ago. It contains valuable tips for businesses who find themselves trying to get it all done before the ultimate midnight. I only hope that government has sufficient funding to listen to this salient advice this year. -- Wayne Socha, Year 2000 Manager for Sanwa Bank California.

From the Publisher

If ever there was a need for an instant book, the End-Game of Y2K - the last two quarters before January 1, 2000 comes - is the time. And Power Your Way through Y2K is the instant book that meets a multiplicity of needs.

Are you a small business who hates technical problems and you wonder how to proceed to become Y2K okay? Power Your Way through Y2K tells you how to select a consultant, gives you a complete checklist of what a small business needs to test and fix, and shows you how to prepare contingency plans.

Are you a municipal leader who is concerned about the fact that 25% of your town's economy (half of all small business) hasn't made Y2K preparations? User CityPlan 2000 to set up clearinghouses of information for your town's businesses. Provide them a place where THEY WILL WANT TO COME to learn about Y2K. Power Your Way through Y2K includes sample public service announcements to alert your community's residents to the preparations your town leaders have made.

Are you an elected official or community organizer who needs an instant plan to bring the community together for Y2K? CityPlan 2000 is it. The plan includes step-by-step procedures to:

1. Set up lists of awareness talks and community action groups

2. Create lists of classes in personal preparation, how to fix a computer, small business entrepreneurship. Also included are steps for involving universities and schools in training students to fix the community's computers.

3. Furnish lists of computer and business consultants to your town's small business. The book specifically addresses how to limit the liability of those providing these lists.

4. Initiate bulletin boards of community needs for before, during, and after the transition to the Year 2000. These bulletin boards will make sure the right supplies get to the right places.

An individual wondering what personal preparation you need to make? Power Your Way through Y2K discusses four of the best plans - then points out the common mistake made by each! Figure how to determine YOUR needs with the information provided in this highly recommended book.

Whoever you are, whatever you do, you can Power Your Way through Y2K!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: PJW Enterprises Inc; First Edition edition (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929275005
• ISBN-13: 978-1929275007
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,675,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Even your mother in-law can understand Y2K, December 25, 1999

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Michael Hernandez (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Your Way through Y2K (Paperback)

My mother in-law was over at my house and we started talking about Y2K. See asked me to explain how this will affect her.

The problem I've always had is trying to explain to a non-technical person what it really is.

This book explains in simple terms what Y2K is all about and how to prepare for it.

I have also fond myself quoting from this book to my co-workers.

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete & succinct discussion of Y2K and solutions, October 17, 1999

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Chris Rohrs (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Your Way through Y2K (Paperback)

Pam Wylie has written an excellent book on Y2K. It discusses what the problem is, how wide the impacts might, and how to deal with it. The orientation is the average citizen, small business person and community organizer. She knows that Y2K can be dealt with, and her goal is help them get the problem solved. Pam is not one of the doom-and-gloomers that are so prevalent these days. Pam deals with the technical details of Y2K in a straight-forward, easy-to-understand manner.

This book is a must-read for small businesses and community organizers.

Time is really short, folks. Get your copy, and get crackin!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely valuable!, October 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Power Your Way through Y2K (Paperback)

This is a great book! I found the section on CROW (Century Roll-Over Weekend) extremely valuable and concise. I have referred to this book many times on the job and at home. I have shared it with a community leader and would recommend it to anyone interested in practical advise for stepping into the Year 2000.