The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015ERLVBA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is that book."Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock"The Seventh Sense ultimately isn't just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. To understand the tsunami of the networked age, you need history, biography, tech, philosophy, politics--and you want a book that has a depth beyond whatever else you could be streaming, podcasting, or wiki-ing. Ramo surveys this new world of interconnected networks in penetrating detail with deep knowledge of current global geopolitics and human history."Hazel Henderson, Seeking Alpha<
He is co-chief executive officer and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates and a member of the board of directors of FedEx and Starbucks. His first book, No Visible Horizon, chronicled his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable.
Surprising election results. It will also give you the power to change it.. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks--not merely the Internet but also networks of trade and DNA and finance. An unfixable global economy. What if we could know the secret of those who can make sense of this age? What if we could apply it to the questions that worry us most?In this groundbreaking new book, Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable, introduces a powerful way of seeing the world. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, a
Table-pounding frustration Ashutosh S. Jogalekar I regret to say that I honestly cannot remember the last time I felt like pounding the table with frustration so much while reading a book. Overall I found Ramo's volume highly repetitive and bombastic, long on rhetoric, name-dropping and references and short on logic and argument. Basically Ramo's entire thesis can be summed up in two sentence. pbusharizi said A great path illuminator. At once a great interpreter of the past to illuminate the future while at the same time a cipher for events happening around us, decrypting what they mean.Not the last word on what the fast changes around us mean and what they lead to but definitely a useful addition to the stock of literature helping us understand the powerful forces and movem. Christopher M. Schroeder said Essential. The predominant thought I had in reading this book in two sittings, living in Washigton, DC, is how little anyone in this town understands how the world is changing around them. From the Executive Branch to Congress to their staffs and the thinktank/lobbyists and journalists that are this city, there is universal focus on the echo chamber of th