Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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Students are behind in their learning due to COVID and the biggest concern is that students who do not learn to read proficiently by third grade have difficulty catching up and are 4 times less likely to graduate from high school = lifetime achievement of millions is lowered.

Scott Galloway the Howard Stern of the Business World? Is Scott Galloway the Howard Stern of the Business World?

The reason for the three stars is, though the book is interesting, it seems half-baked. There's no clear thesis and the conclusion of the book is dramatically over-optimistic. The context for most charts are inspired by an executive decision or corporate behaviors. In these instances, there wasn't much exploration or mention of what the foreign policy or foreign pressures were at the time. I got a sense from the book historical decisions were made simply because its better or more fair. In the real word, it is more likely decisions are made to out-perform the competition (foreign markets and technologies).Following his graduation from UCLA in 1987, Galloway worked as a Fixed Income Analyst at Morgan Stanley. [2] Well, OK, they also come with a lot of downsides. Nobody asks for a crisis like a global pandemic throwing everything into confusion. But at the same time, risk and instability can actually foster innovation and research. When old ways of doing things fall apart, people come up with new ideas. New and better restaurants may move into a neighborhood to replace failed ones. Tanking rents may not be great news for landlords but they can clear the way for more people to move into an area for job opportunities. China spends 10x more of it’s GDP on core infrastructure than the United States which is why it shouldn’t be surprising you can get from Bejing to Shanghai in 4.5 hours despite being a greater distance than Boston to DC which takes 7 hours. SREENIVASAN: One of the charts you have is income growth — or wage growth by income level, there’s a massive gap here in how the rich have seen in the last 25 or 30 years and how their wages are going up versus everyone else. But herein lies the dilemma: we also rely on news media to help us navigate the false claims and fake news that spread like wildfire around the world on the speedy pathways of the internet.

Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of

The book is a list of issues, using charts to truthfully and effectively describe the facts, good or bad! The first time I read this book I came away with the impression that Galloway misused data to tell a For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with all kinds of job loss, we also saw a rise in business applications as people innovated and adapted. SREENIVASAN: So, what happens then if this trend continues and you see — another one of your charts talks about how basically the world is investing more in R&D than they used to compare to us. I mean, we have enormous number of Nobel laureates in every sort of sector. But how long until everybody else starts to kind of reap the rewards of putting in that investment? This is a book for the age of Tic Tok. A detailed analysis of the state of America since 1945 but told in bite-sized charts. These illustrations are not the consultant’s prop of PowerPoint but each informs an element of the author’s thesis.From New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisis In this Blink, we can’t hope to cover all 100 separate charts featured in Adrift. What we can do is draw out some of the key ideas and statistics and give you a sense of the meaning that each of them holds. One final thought, the author DOESN'T really cover here. He notes that one of the most dangerous trends in America is the growing number of undereducated, lonely, poor, angry and terminally single young men. Well, you know who else has that problem? China - and is this really the situation we want in the world's two superpowers as they edge closer and closer to confrontation?

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Dennis, Steven. "The Inconvenient Truth About E-Commerce: It's Largely Unprofitable". Forbes . Retrieved March 17, 2017. SREENIVASAN: You know, we’ve had previous conversations about your views on higher education and education, and as a society, we feel like investing in ourselves, giving ourselves that education is a way to have that social mobility. And one of the charts that you point out is how — what you make with that college degree, it is just the return on investment is poorer and poorer. PDF / EPUB File Name: Adrift_America_in_100_Charts_-_Scott_Galloway.pdf, Adrift_America_in_100_Charts_-_Scott_Galloway.epub

Yet, despite that, there are still glimmers of hope scattered throughout our rapidly changing world. While Scott Galloway does discuss major challenges in Adrift, he also brings a refreshing sense of optimism and a willingness to focus on the positive aspects of modern life. It’s both a warning and a hopeful call for a better society. By understanding what’s going wrong, we can make choices that put us on a better course. Galloway, Scott (2020). Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity. New York: Portfolio/Penguin. ISBN 9780593332214. The result? We have increasingly less access to good information – even as social media companies drive us to divisive and anxiety-inducing content.

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The premise for this is good, but oh man, someone needs to get this guy some of Tufte, Edward R.'s books, or perhaps How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody. A lot of the charts are awful; they look very pretty but do a poor job of conveying the key information.We’re social beings. Our communities give us the daily support we need to survive and thrive. Connection to others and interaction with them is also a key part of building tolerance for those who look or believe differently from us. If we drift apart, society begins to fray. An urgent examination of America's future through a review of its past from 1945 to today for readers seeking to understand the reasons for its political, social and economic crisis from New York Times bestselling author Scott Galloway. We also turn founders like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk into cult figures. But their large followings can distract from the actual health of their companies. Also, instead of clear communication about value, some companies indulge in outlandish yogababble – vague pronouncements about how they’re selling a lifestyle or feeling. Or they overpromise, sliding into aspirational claims about what they’re eventually going to achieve.