by Arnold & Edith Weiner Brown ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 19, 1984
A couple of management consultants have monitored ""fifty carefully selected periodicals"" (plus conferences, TV, etc.) ""in search of developments that will affect our future""--which they now serve up to managers in 30 brief, scrappy chapters. Unlike Megatrends--a by-product, you may recall, of corporate-consultant Naisbitt's monitoring of newspapers--there is little synthesis and no particular vision. Nor, for the regular reader of (say) Newsweek and Business Week, is there anything new in these spot reports on vogue topics--like communications technology and the two-wage-earner household, the financial services sector and the independent world economy. True, the topics are organized in ways meant to be meaningful--the two-wage-earner household, for instance, comes under ""Who Are the New Employees?""--and they sometimes do give rise to a pertinent observation or two: men with working wives are more economically independent (""The need for that next promotion. . . becomes greatly diminished""); flexible hours are a good idea for both working parents. Also, the authors' lists of specific indicators are usually quite valid--at least in business-management areas, from job satisfaction to corporate governance. (As regards environmentalism, technology, the US or world economy, this is wispy.) And from their '82-'83 reading, Brown and Weiner know, for example, that ""the work ethic is alive and well"": Daniel Yankelovich said so, in the May 1982 Psychology Today. A managerial type who's been hibernating could get the current drift of all sorts of things here--without, however, a full grasp of any.
Pub Date: March 19, 1984
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Review Posted Online: N/A
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1984
Categories: NONFICTION
© Copyright 2024 Kirkus Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Hey there, book lover.
We’re glad you found a book that interests you!
We can’t wait for you to join Kirkus!
It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds!
Already have an account? Log in.
OR
Sign in with GoogleTrouble signing in? Retrieve credentials.
Welcome Back!
OR
Sign in with GoogleTrouble signing in? Retrieve credentials.
Don’t fret. We’ll find you.