America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age - Rilegato

Rework America

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ISBN 10: 0393285138 ISBN 13: 9780393285130

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2015

Riassunto

Amid the biggest economic transformation in a century, the challenge of our time is to make sure that all Americans benefit from the wave of digital revolutions around the world that have permeated and upended modern life. Yet today's economic arguments seem stuck. We need a new vision of a hopeful future and a new action agenda.So many Americans are uncertain about the future. How can there be so many paths to opportunity with so few people traveling them? As a nation, we have to understand what is required to help Americans succeed now, and how to prepare our country for what comes next.We have been here before. A hundred years ago, America experienced the greatest economic transformation and technological revolution in its history. The transformation of the past twenty years—as the world has moved through the information era into the digital age—has turned our life and work upside down once again. It is a time of tremendous change but also of tremendous possibility.Rework America is a group of American leaders who know from experience the challenges we face—and the potential solutions. In America's Moment they suggest a practical agenda for an exciting future. It is illustrated by people who are already showing the way and includes actions Americans can take today in their own communities: preparing people to succeed, using the reach of the Internet and data to innovate jobs and to reach new markets all over the world, using technology to match employers and workers, and transitioning to a "no-collar" working world— neither blue collar nor white collar.Set against the history of how Americans succeeded once before in remaking their country, America's Moment is about the future. It describes how the same forces of change—technology and a networked world—can become tools that can open opportunity to everyone.

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"In an age of daunting pessimism, Rework America offers an unabashedly positive view of how things can be. In an era best characterized by intense polarization on all fronts, Rework America reminds us of what made us such a great nation in the first place and how we can recapture the optimism we seem to have lost over the past few decades." -- Aaron W. Hughey - Bowling Green Daily News "In this rich compendium of information on new tools "to rework America, to rebuild the American dream," a bevy of business, technology, and other experts convened by the Markle Foundation explains that the same modern forces that have erased so many American jobs-technological leaps and globalization-can become the basis for a vast expansion of work opportunities. ...Policymakers will welcome this practical guide to overcoming "cultural hangovers" and allowing more Americans to participate in the benefits of our networked era." -- Kirkus Reviews "At a time of great technological change and fast-shifting global conditions, this book provides a clear look at how we got to this moment, what its unique opportunities are, and how we can move forward in ways that maximize outcomes for everyone. For anyone looking for insights and inspiration on navigating the twenty-first-century economy, this is essential reading" -- Reid Hoffman, cofounder/chairman of LinkedIn and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age "Full of insights, full of fresh ideas, and, most important, full of hope. If you've gone gloomy about the American Dream, here"s the book to start you smiling again." -- Mitch Daniels Jr., president of Purdue University and former governor of Indiana "Today, financial anxiety and job insecurity stalk the suburbs as much as the inner cities. America"s Moment shows us the steps that America must take to turn these challenges into opportunities. This is the wake-up call that everyone who cares about the American Dream needs to hear." -- Geoffrey Canada, president of Harlem Children's Zone "In a time of deep polarization, America"s Moment provides an important service by developing a tangible and workable way forward for America"s most pressing policy problems." -- Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute "America"s Moment redefines the biggest economic transformation this country has seen in a century. It shares the collective wisdom of some of America's most remarkable leaders who offer an agenda of opportunity for all Americans in the new digital age. The 2016 presidential election must serve as a call to action to reinvigorate the economy and make sure no one falls through the cracks. This book is for all of us with a stake in that election." --Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post

"The authors make their case with surprising panache..."America's Moment" provides as useful a guide as any available to turning drift into mastery once again." --Economist

L'autore:

Rework America is a group of over fifty leaders from across American life. Led by the Markle Foundation and supported by a formidable group of experts, the group spent over a year developing and discussing the ideas in America's Moment. With various partners, Rework America is also encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring concrete innovations around the country to illustrate how the possible can be brought to life. Zoe Baird is CEO and President of the Markle Foundation, spearheading "Rework America: the Markle Economic Future Initiative." A former executive at General Electric and Aetna, she has also served as a trusted senior advisor to public sector leaders.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393285138
• ISBN 13: 9780393285130
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352