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(Viking Canada, September 2003, Hardcover)
Changes in politics and technology, management and leadership, demographics and economics and more are altering the face and pace of business. Those who are prepared will prosper, while most organizations will flounder or fall by the wayside. In Who Owns Tomorrow? Richard Worzel challenges readers to examine the future and plan for it. Built around seven key secrets, such as 'the status quo is fatal' and 'watch for falling governments', this book spells out the difference between opportunity and vulnerability for businesses and governments. Now in Paperback!more...
(Key Porter Publishing, 1999, Trade Paperback) How to create job security in an insecure world!
Where can you find a secure job? Where should your children look for one? This essential handbook on your future tells you how to create the only job security anyone will ever have. more...
(Stoddart Publishing, Toronto)
The purpose of this book is to make the radical changes that are hurtling towards us seem more understandable and more real, or at least less surrealistic and less abstract. Accordingly, it is written from a personal point of view: when you wake up one morning in the year 2017, what will the world be like? What will it look, sound, and feel like? more...
(Stoddart Publishing, Toronto)
People often ask me if I study trends as a futurist. My reply is that, sure, I look at trends, but I'm really more interested in what causes a trend to happen. That's the only way you can tell when a trend is about to change. Facing the Future is a description of the seven major forces at work in the world today that are going to have the greatest effect on our futures. more...