John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt
John Naisbittis an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. His first book Megatrends was published in 1982. It was the result of almost ten years of research. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, mostly as No. 1. Megatrends was published in 57 countries and sold more than 14 million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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embedded
The future is embedded in the present.
absolutely acceptance among greater lead less others people society stage
We're very much in an evolutionary stage as people now. The globalization of our society is just amazing. It absolutely will lead to greater acceptance of others where the differences among us are less and less important.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
empowering network rewards work
In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.
computer created managerial needed people system track
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
american-businessman mainstream
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
adoption common countries cultural currency heroes national seemed sure tender tune
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
sex government gone
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
mergers dinosaurs appearance
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
small-business individual bigs
Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.
technology shopping rocks
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
order action spontaneous
Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.
inspirational people pay
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
skills important constantly-learning
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.