Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L Friedman

Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L Friedman

#1 New York Times Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller

One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now * One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year * One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Year

Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Version 2.0, Updated and Expanded, with a New Afterword

We all sense it--something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once--and it is dizzying.

In Thank You for Being Late, version 2.0, with a new afterword, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet's three largest forces--Moore's law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)--are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. The year 2007 was the major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is providing vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world--or to destroy it.

With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations--if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is an essential guide to the present and the future.

Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, reporter, and columnist who has written five popular books, including From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Earth Is Flat. Friedman was born in Minneapolis in 1953 and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Paul. Louis Park is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a bachelor's degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975 and went on to St. With a Marshall Scholarship, he attended Antony's College, Oxford, and earned an M.Phil. Oxford University's current Middle East studies degree

He joined The New York Times after three years with United Press International, where he worked as a reporter, correspondent, bureau head, and columnist. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes while at the New York Times: in 1983 for foreign reporting (from Lebanon), 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and 2002 for his columns following the September 11th attacks. From Beirut to Israel, Friedman's debut novel, earned the National Book Award in 1989. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), his second book, won the Overseas Press Club Award for outstanding foreign policy book in 2000.

Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 was published in 2002 by FSG and includes a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning essays as well as a diary he kept following 9/11. In November 2005, his fourth book, The Earth Is Flat: A Short History of the Twenty-First Century (2005), became a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the first Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. In 2006 and 2007, a new and extended edition was issued in hardback. The Earth Is Flat has been translated into 37 languages and has sold over 4 million copies.

He published Hot, Flat, and Crowded in 2008, followed by a revised edition a year later. That Used to Be Us: How America Went Behind in the World It Created and How We Can Come Back, his sixth book, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was released in September 2011. Friedman and his family live in Bethesda, MD.