Adrift, Scott Galloway
Adrift, Scott Galloway
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Adrift
America in 100 Charts

Bestseller

Author: Scott Galloway

Narrator: Scott Galloway

Unabridged: 3 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/27/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation – and how we got here.

We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we’re faced with daunting questions – is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change – change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically impact the financial backbone of our nation: the middle class.
 
In Adrift, Galloway looks to the past – from 1945 to present day – to explain just how America arrived at this precipice. Telling the story of our nation through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today’s perfect storm. Adrift attempts to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway’s unique take on where we’re headed and who we’ll become, touching on topics as wide-ranging as online dating to minimum wage to the American dream.
 
Just as in 1945 and 1980, America is once again a nation at a crossroads. This time, what will it take for our nation to keep up with the fast and violent changes to our new world?

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of all 100 charts from the book!

About The Author

Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. He is the bestselling author of Post Corona, The Four, and The Algebra of Happiness and has served on the boards of directors of the New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy No Malice blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach millions. In 2019, Scott founded Section4, an online education platform for working professionals where he teaches business strategy: section4.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MookNana on October 11, 2022

I think most people can agree that there are things in America that are not good. We may vehemently disagree on what those things are, how they came to be, and what to do about them, but I don't really know anyone who is walking around saying, "Man, things are just super awesome in the ol' US of A t......more

Goodreads review by Philip on July 03, 2023

"I'm sometimes criticized for focusing on the problems of tech or business or society, and not proposing solutions. Well, guilty as charged, I suppose. But let me say two things. "First, these problems flow in part from failures of perception and awareness…(long explanatory paragraph). "And second, t......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on April 23, 2023

Knowing a bit about Scott Galloway, I've expected some non-obvious data sets, interesting reasoning, and maybe even well-thought-through suggestions on what to do with that. I've got nothing like that - the charts were not surprising at all, they didn't bring any revelation, I've done no notes, and......more

Goodreads review by Graeme on January 09, 2024

This book is quite an intriguing read, because it’s a long series of fascinating charts and graphs. Who doesn't like a good chart? Galloway's got this knack for turning piles of data into these eye-catching, easy-to-get graphics. There's a lot to chew on here. You can just flip through a few pages w......more

Goodreads review by Brice on March 13, 2023

America in 100 charts… Man. What an undertaking. Not only was the author setting himself up to capture all of the issues in modern America with 100 charts (which is shockingly few when you really think about it), but he was also setting himself up to boil each of those 100 incredibly complex issues......more