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A picture of what a post-pandemic world may look like

Author : Joshua Park
Publisher : Gugguro Media & Codemy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A picture of what a post-pandemic world may look like written by Joshua Park and published by Gugguro Media & Codemy. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there was ever a period of uncertainty and a backlog of unanswered questions in recent memory, the years 2020 and 2021 have certainly been uncertain. What does the future hold for us after this pandemic? Has COVID-19 permanently changed our way of life? What is the long-term outlook for the global economy? In this book, I examine what medical experts, political leaders, and well-known futurists are saying with regard to these questions. Political polarization, fearmongering, and herd mentality are all great obstacles that must be dealt with in order to address the most pressing questions that the pandemic has given rise to. Should our leaders consider universal basic income (UBI) in the long run? How does transportation look in a post-pandemic society? How can we reduce the possibilities of such a pandemic from happening again? How can nations achieve the appropriate balance between public health and individual rights? Again, these are just a few questions that may arise as we move on from the worst days of the pandemic, and for most of these questions, there is no single, clear, and definite answer. It may be impossible to read the future, but it is possible to prepare for it by educating ourselves with data. In a time where political leaders seem to be driven more by partisanship over data-driven decision-making, the onus is on average citizens to steer their leaders towards practical and helpful legislative practices. With unstable financial markets, a global economy on fire, and speculations over the efficacy of vaccines, it is important to understand our current circumstances in order to present reasonable solutions. However dim the future may appear, creating a brighter reality must be a collective goal. Through this book, I hope to provide a clear picture of what the world looked like during the peak of the pandemic as well as a picture of what a post-pandemic world may look like.

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393542149
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.

Neurodevelopment in the Post-Pandemic World

Author : Molly Colvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197762638
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Neurodevelopment in the Post-Pandemic World written by Molly Colvin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's now clear that school closures during the pandemic wreaked havoc on learning for youth, with the greatest harm shouldered by our most vulnerable students. The book discusses how psychosocial and educational disruption was so profound we believe it has actually altered brain development trajectories for a generation. It will impact everything from future GDP to use of existing pre-COVID norms for any testing, to dementia or learning disability diagnosis and even the civil and criminal courtroom.

Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Thomas Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000572153
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World by : Thomas Fisher

Download or read book Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World written by Thomas Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World explores the rebalancing of our physical and digital interactions and what it means for the built environment going forward. This book examines the effect of the pandemic on our use of land, interior space, energy, and transportation, as well as on our approach to design, wealth, work, and practice. Author Thomas Fisher also discusses the plagues of institutional racism and climate change that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and how these were interrelated. At the same time as all of this, the automation of all or part of many jobs continued unabated, eliminating much of the work that people did before COVID-19 arrived. This text discusses how we might leverage the under-utilized human talent and material assets all around us to rebuild our communities and our economy in more creative ways for a more equitable, resilient future. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World will influence anyone interested in how design thinking can transform how we see the world and those looking for new ways to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic means and what opportunities it creates for our environments.

Post Corona

Author : Scott Galloway
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593332210
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Post Corona written by Scott Galloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller! "Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime." --The New York Times "As good an analysis as you could wish to read." --The Financial Times From bestselling author and NYU Business School professor Scott Galloway comes a keenly insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask wearers and the mask haters. Some businesses--like home exercise company Peloton, video conference software maker Zoom, and Amazon--woke up to find themselves crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others--like the restaurant, travel, hospitality, and live entertainment industries--scrambled to escape obliteration. But as New York Times bestselling author Scott Galloway argues, the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends already well underway. In Post Corona, he outlines the contours of the crisis and the opportunities that lie ahead. Some businesses, like the powerful tech monopolies, will thrive as a result of the disruption. Other industries, like higher education, will struggle to maintain a value proposition that no longer makes sense when we can't stand shoulder to shoulder. And the pandemic has accelerated deeper trends in government and society, exposing a widening gap between our vision of America as a land of opportunity, and the troubling realities of our declining wellbeing. Combining his signature humor and brash style with sharp business insights and the occasional dose of righteous anger, Galloway offers both warning and hope in equal measure. As he writes, "Our commonwealth didn't just happen, it was shaped. We chose this path--no trend is permanent and can't be made worse or corrected."

COVID-19

Author : J. Michael Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429725
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 written by J. Michael Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SARS-CoV-2 virus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, around the world in more than a century. Although there is little global agreement on many issues related to the virus, there is widespread agreement that the actual number of cases – both of those infected and of those who have died as a result of infection – is certainly much higher than official numbers suggest. The impact of the virus, however, has spread well beyond the realm of the medical, also heavily impacting social, cultural, economic, political, and quotidian ways of living for nearly every human being on the planet. The two edited volumes in this set contribute to a broader understanding of the impact COVID-19 is having, and will have, on our understandings, efforts, and decisions of the future of global society.

Economic Crisis and Mentality of Youth in Post-Pandemic Period edited by Sagar Simlandy

Author : Various Contributors
Publisher : PS Opus Publications
ISBN 13 : 8194731836
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Economic Crisis and Mentality of Youth in Post-Pandemic Period edited by Sagar Simlandy written by Various Contributors and published by PS Opus Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of an intellectual exercise to understand our post-COVID society. Our planet is convalescing from one of the worst pandemics in living memory – the whole of 2020 has been sacrificed to combat the iniquities perpetrated by a sub-microscopic conglomeration of proteins and nucleic acids, a virus that has achieved immortality in the annals of history as SARS-COVID-19. Deaths from COVID-19 in USA have crossed 405,399 – the number of Americans who died in the Second World War. The most important and, most far-reaching effect has of course been that of isolation, ‘lockdown’ in colloquial usage. That term is now probably the most widely understood English word across the inhabited world from the poles to the tropics, even in non-English speaking countries like China and Japan. The primary effect of this lockdown has been on the economy – from developed to developing countries, there are none that may claim to have escaped the paralyzing debilitation caused by an instant and total absence of all forms of commerce. Long queues in front of provision stores, slow starvation as savings dried up, people begging for scraps, people dying by the roadside and railway tracks as they set out to walk the length and breadth of the country en-route to their homes from their places of work – all these shocking pictures are now part of our heritage. An online society has cropped up as the new normal one, sustained by internet, apps, tweeter, and face-book and so on. It is needless to say that this digital society is the child of no other than the Corona virus. What is different today is the loss of vision. Men have distanced themselves not only from their friends but also from their productive energy and sustainable creativity.

The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Paul R. Ward
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803823232
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World written by Paul R. Ward and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World offers a sociological examination of the lived impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through culture(s) of emotion, offering a refreshing contribution to a new and exciting sub-discipline.

The Korean Wave in a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Geon-Cheol Shin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819936837
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Korean Wave in a Post-Pandemic World written by Geon-Cheol Shin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

System Innovation in a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Artde Donald Kin-Tak Lam
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100056844X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book System Innovation in a Post-Pandemic World written by Artde Donald Kin-Tak Lam and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: System Innovation in a Post-Pandemic World contains the papers presented at the IEEE 7th International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI 2021, Alishan, Taiwan, September 24-25, 2021). The conference received more than 200 submitted papers from 11 different countries, whereby roughly one third of these papers was selected by the committees and invited to present at ICASI 2021. The book provides an integrated communication platform for researchers from a wide range of disciplines including information technology, communication science, applied mathematics, computer science, advanced material science, and engineering. Hopefully, interdisciplinary collaborations between science and engineering technologists in the domains of academia and industry will be enhanced via this unique international network.

Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004549382
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural change denominated as “the new normal” goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited person-to-person contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in societies all around the world: physical intimacy decreases while virtual reality expands and alterity declines while artificial intelligence emerges, leading to structural reconfigurations of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning global governmentality and challenging the biopolitics of the new normal—the administration of self-control societies so politically correct that repressed desire for otherness only finds a simulation of its satisfaction with the forced abnormality, outrageousness, and violence of mainstream porn—, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more.

Religion, Spirituality and Secularity among Millennials

Author : Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000634639
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Spirituality and Secularity among Millennials written by Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the world of religion, spirituality and secularity among the Millennial generation in the United States and Canada, with a focus on the ways Millennials are doing (non)religion differently in their social lives compared with their parents and grandparents. It considers the influences exercised on the (non)religious and spiritual landscapes of young adults in North America by the digital age, precarious work, growing pluralism, extreme individualism, environmental crisis, advanced urbanism, expanded higher education, emerging adulthood, and a secular age. Based on extensive primary and secondary quantitative data, complemented with high-quality qualitative research, including interviews and focus groups, this book offers cross-national comparisons between the United States and Canada to highlight the impact of different social environments on the experience of religion, spirituality and secularity among the continent’s most numerous generation. As such, it will appeal to scholars of religion and sociology, with interests in religious and societal change as well as in religious practice among young adults.

Workplace and Employee Health in the Post-Pandemic World; Strategies, Risks, and Challenges

Author : Muhammad Salman Shabbir
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832538789
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Workplace and Employee Health in the Post-Pandemic World; Strategies, Risks, and Challenges written by Muhammad Salman Shabbir and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the economies, public health, and medical care systems. It is also shaping the future of work. The pandemic has normalized various trends about work, with significant implications for enterprises, employee health, and wellbeing. Internationally, employers, government agencies, public health agencies, trade unions, and professional associations have dealt with maintaining economic activity while keeping workers safe and healthy. The pandemic has emphasized the importance of work in shaping population health and wellbeing. This perspective implies a multilevel system framework to aid in understanding the complex and diverse interactions of factors impacting worker health and wellbeing. It also implies how trending changes in employment and working conditions have been accelerated by the pandemic. Government organizations concerned with population health and wellbeing, and economic activity must expand their capability to screen, assess, and react to these trends after the pandemic. Additionally, integrated enterprise and workplace-based approaches that consider the interactions among these multidimensional drivers will build organization and worker resilience to navigate the continual changes in work and worker safety, health, and wellbeing in a post-pandemic world.

Reimagining Communication in a Post-pandemic World: The Intersection of Information, Media Technology, and Psychology

Author : Runxi Zeng
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832518206
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Communication in a Post-pandemic World: The Intersection of Information, Media Technology, and Psychology written by Runxi Zeng and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed social interactions. Social distancing policies, lockdowns, and mandatory quarantines have accelerated the technological mediation of communication (e.g. AI-mediated communication, computer-mediated communication) on an unprecedented scale, willingly or otherwise. Many physical activities such as office work, education, and conferences have had to be performed in the online space through social media apps, the metaverse or specialized programs on mobile phones or laptops as part of pandemic control efforts. As a result, digitally mediated channels have become critical for information acquisition and communication across a wide spectrum of human activities such as education, social interaction, entertainment, and commercial activities. Human beings are increasingly reliant on non-human agents, including social media, Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools, or smartphone mobile devices for most routine activities, professional communication, and social interactions. As scientific understanding of COVID-19 improves, pandemic restrictions are gradually loosening. However, it remains to be seen whether the pandemic communication paradigm characterized by heavy technological mediation and reliance on non-human agents will also gradually decline, or will the paradigm shift become deeply entrenched with further acceleration of dependency on technological mediation and non-human agents.

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Ridge Shinn
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645021254
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World written by Ridge Shinn and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *With a foreword by Gabe Brown, bestselling author of Dirt to Soil How can we learn from our mistakes and pave a way for sustainable, nutritious, local meat? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalized food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat. We must replace corn-based feedlots, which are responsible for significant climate emissions, nitrogen pollution, and animal suffering. Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World outlines a hopeful path out of our broken food system via regional networks of regeneratively produced meat. In 2017, Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger went to market with Big Picture Beef, a company that partners with farmers across the Northeast to increase access to wholesale markets while promoting holistic grazing management techniques. The result? Increased health benefits for consumers, the environment, and livestock. In Grass Fed-Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, you’ll find information assembled from the fields of ecology, climate science, nutrition, and animal welfare, along with on-the-farm stories from Ridge’s travels as a consultant all over the United States and abroad. You’ll discover how regenerative grazing can: restore degraded farmland protect against droughts and floods increase biodiversity combat climate change by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon contribute to regional economic development produce nutrient-dense, healthy meat for consumers Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World is not just for beef producers, but for anyone wondering how our farmers and ranchers can raise cattle while also caring for the local and global environment.

Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World

Author : Azukas, M. Elizabeth
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668472864
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World written by Azukas, M. Elizabeth and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest systemic disruption in history. The pandemic was a complex phenomenon that impacted economic, political, and education systems. The pandemic had widespread business impacts, having forced many businesses to close, and the world is still impacted by the effects of supply chain disruptions. The pandemic also impacted political systems with disputes over mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine distribution. The COVID-19 pandemic further caused the most extensive education system disruption in history. The pandemic has highlighted the worlds complex interdependent structures, and it will require a multidisciplinary systems thinking approach for post-pandemic recovery and future pandemic prevention. Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World examines the role of systems thinking in a post-pandemic world. It identifies effective models of systems thinking and destems design and generates continuous knowledge building on systems thinking by addressing a multitude of industries and service communities. This book provides value in understanding the complexities of an interconnected world and in the exploration of effective approaches to systems thinking and design. Covering topics such as blended learning, local governments, and systems thinking, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for practitioners, policymakers, healthcare providers, business leaders and managers, educators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, administrators and faculty, teacher educators, sociologists, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships

Author : Susan McPherson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260469891
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships written by Susan McPherson and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Business Book of 2021 by Soundview Magazine Reclaim the power of genuine human connection Networking is often considered a necessary evil for all working professionals. With social media platforms like Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at our disposal, reaching potential investors or employers is much easier. Yet, these connections often feel transactional, agenda-driven, and dehumanizing, leaving professionals feeling burnt out and stressed out. Instead, we should connect on a human level and build authentic relationships beyond securing a new job or a new investor for your next big idea. To build real and meaningful networking contacts, we need to go back to basics, remembering that technology is a tool and more than just a means to an end. We need to tap into our humanity and learn to be more intentional and authentic. As a “serial connector” and communications expert, Susan McPherson has a lifetime of experience building genuine connections in and out of work. Her methodology is broken down into three simple steps: Gather: Instead of waiting for the perfect networking opportunity to come to you, think outside the box and create your own opportunity. Host your own dinner party, join a local meet-up group, or volunteer at your neighborhood food pantry. Ask: Instead of leading with our own rehearsed elevator pitches asking for help, ask to help, opening the door to share resources, experience, contacts, and perspectives that add diversity to your own vision. Do: Turn new connections into meaningful relationships by taking these newly formed relationships deeper. Follow through on the promises you made and keep in touch. Woven together with helpful tips and useful advice on making the most out of every step, this book draws on McPherson’s own experience as a renowned “serial connector,” as well as the real life success stories of friends and clients. Filled with humor, humility, and wisdom, The Lost Art of Connecting is the handbook we all need to foster personal and professional relationships that blur the lines between work and play—and enrich our lives in every way.