 Watts Wacker is one of the most celebrated and influential minds in modern business. Mr. Wacker--lecturer, best-selling author, political commentator and social critic--is one of the world's most respected futurists. His uncommon versatility and vision has allowed him to help the world's top corporations and organizations navigate the sea of change that is taking hold in the new millennium. He has been the futurist at SRI International, the legendary Menlo Park think tank, and spent ten years as the resident futurist at the preeminent social research organization, Yankelovich Partners. As founder and director of FirstMatter LLC, Mr. Wacker has focused his attention on creating a new kind of think tank and he describes himself as a twenty-first century alchemist as well as... "a cross between James Brown and the unknown comic, (the hardest working nobody in the business.)" His speaking style has created many references to Mr. Wacker as being one of the best storytellers alive today. His book, The 500 Year Delta, has been translated into 10 languages (and has been added to the NASA library,) and his recently released The Visionary's Handbook has received outstanding reviews. Watts ' recent work has included essays for the magazines Scientific American and Architectural Record as well as a regular column in Entrepreneur Magazine. He has edited the acclaimed A Free Thinker's A-Z of Business, and is a contributor to The Financial Times Book on Management Volume 2. He is also working on a third book with co-author Ryan Mathews, working titled The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets. His unique approach to business, life and its future has been chronicled in such publications as Fast Company, Forbes, Upside, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The London Telegraph, The Financial Times and many European and Asian publications. He is often seen on television and is considered a "must quote" by the Associated Press. Mr. Wacker was the original pollster to the Fox News Division and directed the Time Magazine Poll, he also managed the preeminent trends prediction service in the United States , for ten years. Mr. Wacker's previous experience includes Vice President of Marketing for the Kenner division of Hasbro Inc., a research fellowship at The Institute for Constructive Capitalism, and ownership and operation of two radio stations in Corpus Christi , Texas .
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