Building upon the Age of Possibility first espoused in their provocative and acclaimed The 500 Year Delta, Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor now welcome readers to the Age of Uncertainty, where, because life has never been easier, it has never been more difficult.
In this unprecedented new book, Wacker and Taylor present a vision of the present and future that goes beyond all the chaos and complexity of our times. With a clear and firm grasp of their material, they proceed to chart a method for readers to create a personal course for the future. 
This navigational route is premised upon the authors' profound understanding of nine mind-boggling paradoxes that capture the imponderables of modern life, and define the business and social climates of the world as we move forward into the new millennium:
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The Paradox of the Visionary The closer your vision gets to a provable truth, the more you are simply describing the present. In the same way, the more certain you are of a future outcome, the more likely you will be wrong.</li>
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The Paradox of Value The value of any product becomes inseparable from a buyer's perception of worth. Instead of intrinsic value, we have relative value only--the products that a business makes bear diminished relations to the physical content of the offering.</li>
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The Paradox of Size The bigger you are, the smaller you need to be. </li>
<li> The Paradox of Time To succeed in the short term, you need to think in the long term. Yet the greater your vision and the longer the time interval over which you predict results, the greater the risk that you will be unable to take the necessary steps in the short term to achieve the long-term goals. The tension between short- and long-term planning has never been more tormented.</li>
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The Paradox of Competition Your biggest competitor is your own view of your future; competition comes from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. </li>
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The Paradox of Action You've got to go for what you can't expect to get; nothing will turn out exactly as it's supposed to. You must act intuitively and be equally ready to take resolute counter-intuitive action. </li>
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The Paradox of Leadership To lead from the front, you have to stay inside the story. In an inherently inconsistent world, consistency is not the virtue it once was in our leaders.</li>
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The Paradox of Leisure Play is hard work; play and work are blending and becoming indistinguishable. </li>
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The Paradox of Reality Every person on planet Earth today has the potential to be connected to every other person, and every single one of us inhabits a world of our own and is a marketing segment of absolutely one. As our links become stronger, our individuation becomes starker.</li>
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A bold, incisive book, The Visionary's Handbook captures the interlocking web o paradoxes that abound in everyday business life, and provides an essential map to help make the future work for every individual and every company in the challenging and uncertain times ahead.

The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business

Business & Money

Means, Howard

Taylor, Jim

Wacker, Watts

Management & Leadership

Harper Business

Storage media may have come and gone, but the "killer" technology has finally arrived: DVD (Digital Video Disk). Its 4.7 gigabytes of storage per disk (CD offers 650) make it the imminent successor to audio CD, videocassette, laserdics, and CD-ROM. Here's the first plain-English guide to help professionals cut through the highly technical standards documents and really get to grips with working and designing with DVD, including hardware and software requirements, Internet applications, next generation technology, and much more. Includes a DVD-ROM with product demos.

Dvd Demystified: The Guidebook for Dvd-Video and Dvd-Rom

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw=Hill

"…without doubt the definitive reference book on DVD.”*    DVD is the all-in-one storage technology that is altering the landscape of home entertainment, professional video, business communications, and multimedia computing. Now is the time to learn about DVD and how to use it to its best advantage. In DVD Demystified, Second Edition, industry insider Jim Taylor paints a full, up-to-date DVD picture with a friendly technical introduction. You MUST read it if you’re a multimedia developer, work with educational technology or industrial training, if you’re a filmmaker or musician – or simply want to understand this fascinating technology with potentially huge worldwide impact.    "This is not merely ‘a’ good book to help you make sense of DVD, it is ‘the’ book that you will return to over and over as you explore and come to understand this exciting new optical media format." -- Geoffrey Tully, Multimedia Technology Consultant; former Senior VP of Production, Divx Entertainment      “As one of the DVD industry’s leading experts, Jim Taylor covers every aspect of DVD."-- Ralph LaBarge, Managing Partner, Alpha DVD      DVD contains:  Hybrid DVD-Video/DVD-ROM has samples from Broadcast DVD, Dolby, THX, DTS, Joe Kane Productions, Widescreen Review, and others, plus test images, WebDVD HTML files, spreadsheets, and more

Dvd Demystified: Dvd-Video and Dvd-Rom

Software

"…without doubt the definitive reference book on DVD.”* 
 DVD is the all-in-one storage technology that is altering the landscape of home entertainment, professional video, business communications, and multimedia computing. Now is the time to learn about DVD and how to use it to its best advantage. In DVD Demystified, Second Edition, industry insider Jim Taylor paints a full, up-to-date DVD picture with a friendly technical introduction. You MUST read it if you’re a multimedia developer, work with educational technology or industrial training, if you’re a filmmaker or musician – or simply want to understand this fascinating technology with potentially huge worldwide impact. 
 "This is not merely ‘a’ good book to help you make sense of DVD, it is ‘the’ book that you will return to over and over as you explore and come to understand this exciting new optical media format." -- Geoffrey Tully, Multimedia Technology Consultant; former Senior VP of Production, Divx Entertainment 
 “As one of the DVD industry’s leading experts, Jim Taylor covers every aspect of DVD."-- Ralph LaBarge, Managing Partner, Alpha DVD 
 DVD contains: Hybrid DVD-Video/DVD-ROM has samples from Broadcast DVD, Dolby, THX, DTS, Joe Kane Productions, Widescreen Review, and others, plus test images, WebDVD HTML files, spreadsheets, and more

DVD Demystified

Web Development & Design

McGraw-Hill Professional

Since 1997 Jim Taylor's online DVD FAQ has been the most current and complete source of information on this rapidly growing technology, and visitors to the site have been clamoring for a print version. And here it is! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD is the most comprehensive, quick look-up guide to DVD facts, figures, and formats available anywhere. Questions are answered clearly, succinctly, by one of the leading figures in the DVD community. The book is broken into five major sections: * General DVD information * DVD's relationship to other products and technologies * DVD technical details * DVDs and the computer * DVD production Complete with photos and tables not part of the online version, Everything You Wanted to Know About DVD describes and explains every DVD Video and Audio format and covers: * How to run DVD on any type of computer * Easter Egg Essentials * Why some discs don't work in all players (and which ones they will work in) * DVD/CD-ROM/CD-RW/Super Video CD compatibility * DVD Video and Audio outputs * Video hook-up options * Audio hook-up options * Where to find DVD hardware, software, and technical support * Authoring basics* Production basics

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD: The Official DVD FAQ

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

The Latest Tips and Techniques for Getting the Maximum from Blu-ray Technology Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides the most current information and applications available for this popular high-definition optical disc format. Written by a team of experts with a wide range of experience in DVD and high-definition production, this thorough, skill-building guide details Blu-ray's many features, formats, and applications. Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides exhaustive coverage of the multitude of production and authoring processes, while explaining how the standard and high-definition DVD specifications dovetail and/or clash with related digital media standards. The authors also provide detailed descriptions of Blu-ray's strengths, as well as frank assessments of its weaknesses and common traps that often ensnare new users. Blu-ray Disc Demystified is the most comprehensive and practical guide available for navigating the numerous challenges, changes, and opportunities associated with Blu-ray technology. Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides: <ul>
<li> Detailed overview of Blu-ray technology </li>
<li> In-depth coverage of formats, features, and applications </li>
<li> The latest news on content protection </li>
<li> Tips on using Blu-ray in the home, office, and school </li>
<li> The facts behind the myths surrounding Blu-ray </li>
<li> Essential information regarding production </li>
<li> Interaction paradigms </li>
<li> Honest assessments of Blu-ray's pitfalls</li>
</ul>

Blu-ray Disc Demystified

Crawford, Charles

Zink, Michael

Armbrust, Christen

McGraw–Hill Education

NOTE: This ISBN is for a Pearson Books a la Carte edition: a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf text. In addition to the flexibility offered by this format, Books a la Carte editions offer students great value, as they cost significantly less than a bound textbook. For courses in Deviance (Sociology). Explore the origins, causes, and future directions of deviant behavior Deviant Behavior , 12th Edition puts readers in the driver's seat, letting them see what the experts have to say about the origins, causes, current state, and future directions of deviance. Providing a solid foundation in scientific theories of deviance, the text invites readers to apply theories and research to the most relevant forms of deviant behavior today, including emerging forms, such as hacktivism and virtual kidnapping. This extensively updated and revised 12th Edition takes a fresh look at time-honored topics, while shining a spotlight on cutting-edge innovations and deviance-related topics on the horizon.

Deviant Behavior

Politics & Social Sciences

Thio, Alex

Schwartz, Martin

Sociology

Pearson

How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team’s connections with the rest of the enterprise? This book tells you how. Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they’ll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together–in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they’re already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.

Connecting Top Managers: Developing Executive Teams for Business Success

Haneberg, Lisa

Ft Pr

Traces the life and career of Wayne Gretzky who at twenty-three is already considered the greatest hockey player of all time

Gretzky: From Backyard Rink to the Stanley Cup

Gretzky, Wayne

Biographies & Memoirs

Avon/Books

Traces the life and career of Wayne Gretzky who at twenty-four is considered the greatest hockey player of all time

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The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business

Dvd Demystified: The Guidebook for Dvd-Video and Dvd-Rom

Dvd Demystified: Dvd-Video and Dvd-Rom

DVD Demystified

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD: The Official DVD FAQ

Blu-ray Disc Demystified

Deviant Behavior

Connecting Top Managers: Developing Executive Teams for Business Success

Gretzky: From Backyard Rink to the Stanley Cup

Gretzky: From Backyard Rink to the Stanley Cup