Lessons from the future
making sens of a blurred
world
Stan Davis is quite simply
one of the world's greatest futurist. His books have sold over a million copies worldwide
and are published in fifteen languages. They include the worldwide best-seller, Blur,
Future Perfect (winner of the Tom Peters Book of the Decade award) and, most recently,
Future Wealth. He has written for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company and
numerous other international business magazines.
Lessons From The Future
combines new writing with the very best of his unique body of work. In this single
inspirational book, Davis addresses issues that are still playing out and still lie in the
future, as well as the present. It contains some of the most visionary business thinking
of the moment, including mind- ' stretching pieces on the information economy, the
foundations of wealth, the next bio-economy, connectivity, emotional bandwidth and mass ,
. . customisation. Lessons from the Future also includes a unique article by the author
reflecting on his own work and the value of ideas in the new economy.
Stan Davis is the world's
highest profile new economy guru. He is 6'7" and prefers sitting on two stacked
chairs. When people do a double take, he explains that chairs are built for average-sized
people 57" who can't sit in kids' chairs built for 4'7"- size people. He looks
at business the same way, finding opportunities by seeing situations in new ways. His
creative thinking makes practical connections to new business opportunities. :
Lessons from the Future will
help managers and entrepreneurs identify the business and social sea changes that are
transforming everything, everybody and every enterprise. ,
Stan Davis is an author and
acclaimed public speaker based in Boston, Massachusetts. This is his eleventh book. Some
of his previous books include Future Wealth, the best-seller Blur, the landmark Future
Perfect, 2020 Vision, and The Monster Under the Bed. He is also an independent strategy
and management consultant to both major corporations and fast growing enterprises, and
part-time Senior Research Fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business
Innovation.
198 pages