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Business consultant Poscente employs velocity as a catchall term for explaining how to thrive in our hyperstimulated society. A former Olympic speed skier, he explains how people and organizations can best equip themselves to surf the endless assault of tasks and data familiar to any office worker. To him, speed both causes and solves the ambiguity surrounding high technology and the competing demands of career and personal life. But even if speed is the answer, this book doesn't uncover any insight that hasn't occurred to anyone who's ever stayed late tapping out e-mails. For case studies, the book wheels out long-suffering Eastman Kodak as an example of a Zeppelin that couldn't keep pace with new technology. Google, meanwhile, is a Jet that upped the ante. But readers who want to learn from that savvy company would be better served by other studies than this brief sketch. Poscente dallies on the Aligned Organization and the notion that work is no longer a place—it's a state of mind, but the result is a string of business clichés. With almost every other page left blank, Poscente's kind enough not to demand too much of his readers' time. But the lack of substance ensures that they'll forget it even faster. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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To succeed in today’s ever-accelerating world, speed is the name of the game. Forget “slow and steady wins the race.” The key to getting ahead is not fighting or hiding from speed, but embracing speed and using its power to your advantage. As Vince Poscente demonstrates in this rewarding and, yes, fast-paced book, speed has a unique ability to enrich your life. He empowers you to take control of your time, your tasks, your priorities, and your talents, and start making life everything you want it to be. Twenty new tips–exclusive to this paperback edition–show you how to:
• recognize the difference between repetitive chores and passionate pursuits, and assign the appropriate amount of time and energy to each
• mentally shatter the outdated idea that work, home, and leisure should be completely separate, and create a new, purpose-driven model of organizing your time
• discover how to control interruptions, including how and when to accept them–by learning when to multitask and when to focus
Speed provides amazing benefits–you become more conscious of how you spend your time, understand your authentic purpose, and find yourself more flexible and open to new opportunities. When you harness the power of speed, your life and work become less stressful, less busy, and more balanced. What are you waiting for?
Praise for The Age of Speed:
“The Age of Speed is your bible to surf the speed tsunami that’s overtaking business and life.”
–Scott Cook, chairman and co-founder, Intuit
“Thought-provoking . . . It’s time to make peace with the whoosh of your 24/7 lifestyle.”
–Time
“[Vince Poscente’s] counterintuitive notion of embracing speed rather than coping with it will change the way people live and work.”
–Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust
• recognize the difference between repetitive chores and passionate pursuits, and assign the appropriate amount of time and energy to each
• mentally shatter the outdated idea that work, home, and leisure should be completely separate, and create a new, purpose-driven model of organizing your time
• discover how to control interruptions, including how and when to accept them–by learning when to multitask and when to focus
Speed provides amazing benefits–you become more conscious of how you spend your time, understand your authentic purpose, and find yourself more flexible and open to new opportunities. When you harness the power of speed, your life and work become less stressful, less busy, and more balanced. What are you waiting for?
Praise for The Age of Speed:
“The Age of Speed is your bible to surf the speed tsunami that’s overtaking business and life.”
–Scott Cook, chairman and co-founder, Intuit
“Thought-provoking . . . It’s time to make peace with the whoosh of your 24/7 lifestyle.”
–Time
“[Vince Poscente’s] counterintuitive notion of embracing speed rather than coping with it will change the way people live and work.”
–Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust
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