Thank you for being late - Thomas L Friedman

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.

We all sense it - something big
is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk
to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or
watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.

In Thank You for Being Late, a
work unlike any he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the
tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how
to get the most out of them.

Friedman's thesis is that to
understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the
planet's three largest forces - Moore's law (technology), the market
(globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)
- are all accelerating at once, transforming the workplace, politics,
geopolitics, ethics and community. An extraordinary release of energy is
reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to
our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities
for individuals and small groups to save the world - or perhaps to
destroy it.

Thank You for Being Late is a work of
contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to think
about this era of accelerations. It's also an argument for 'being late' -
for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we're passing
through and reflecting on its possibilities and dangers. He shows us how
we can anchor ourselves as individuals in the eye of this storm, and
how communities can create a 'topsoil of trust' to do the same for their
increasingly diverse and digital populations.

Written with his
trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, and with unequalled access to
many of those at the forefront of the changes he is describing all over
the world, Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book - and an essential guide to the present and the future.