San Antonio College Library

Argues that the speed and stimulation characteristic of modern business life are conditions to be sought out and encouraged, and provides examples and advice for managing rapid change.

"The rampant illnesses of our society - including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress - are familiar to us all. For the first time, Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these disparate, overwhelmingly negative phenomena with a single, unifying principle: that the accelerated pace of American society is eroding the essence of our most fundamental values." "We live, according...