Book description
The dizzying exuberance of the Internet driven marketplace offers
unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals,
products, investments, and jobs - ranging from the merely attractive to
the nearly irresistible for the people with the right talent and skills.
The technology that is the motor of transformation relentlessly sharpens
competition. Sellers must make constant improvements by cutting costs,
adding value, and creating new products. This is a boon to us as
consumers, but it's wreaking havoc in the rest of our lives. Reich
demonstrates that the faster the economy changes, the harder it is for
people to be confident of what they will be earning next year or even
net month, what they will be doing, where they will be doing it. In
short, those fabulous new deals of the fabulous new economy carry a
steep price: more frenzied lives, less security, more economic and
social stratification, the loss of time and energy for family,
friendship, community and self. Reich reveals what success is coming to
mean in our time - the pitfalls and downturns hidden in the apparent
advantages and advances - and suggests how we might create a more
balanced society and more satisfying lives. The trends he discusses are
powerful indeed, but they are not irreversible, or at least not
unalterable. The Future of Success is a stunning, timely book, certain
to galvanize the way we look at our future. One of America's most
thoughtful and influential social and economic analysts, Robert B. Reich
has taught at Harvard and Brandeis universities and held office under
three US administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under Bill
Clinton.
