cover image Job Shock: Four New Principles Transforming Our Work and Business

Job Shock: Four New Principles Transforming Our Work and Business

Harry S. Dent, Jr.. St. Martin's Press, $22.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-11835-8

Dent (The Great Boom Ahead) maintains, ``It won't be long before you... find something important missing from your career. Your job may vanish, or maybe your company will go AWOL.'' Using 50-year economic forecasts, the author delineates his controversial theories: the economic future is positive and predictable; information technologies will revolutionize businesses, creating teams, entrepreneurs and home-based specialists and generalists; and revamped companies free from bureaucracies and organized around customer needs will emerge. While well crafted, Dent's untempered optimism is debatable. Despite a carload of useful suggestions to prepare the go-getter for the future job market, he evades the issue of how a changing economy will impact on individuals working at low-level service or manufacturing jobs, or on those lacking language or computer skills. Illustrations. (Mar.)