Thinking in the Future Tense

by Jennifer James

“Much is said these days about building bridges to the 21st century, and savvy businesspeople are constantly on the lookout for ways to make this colorful metaphor into reality. Thinking in the Future Leadership Skills for a New Age , by author and business lecturer Jennifer James, clearly establishes the framework for a real-world transition” (Amazon.com).

American business, economics, and society are changing at a phenomenal rate. The pressure is on, and managers need to learn faster, think smarter, and free themselves from confining assumptions and old mindsets. In this important book, James—"the Margaret Mead of modern business"—reveals the business survival skills managers need to know to operate in this new fashion.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management, Self Help, Psychology

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[David Snook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly relevant for a book about the future that was written over 20 years ago! It misses in many of the details, of course (there is a reference to someone working remotely for Netscape in the glorious distributed workforce future), but the discussion around the long-term trends and the principles and techniques for taking advantage of them is all still applicable.

[Peter Fletcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book that I have ever read and it continues to excite my own thinking