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
spiritual technology race
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
commitment best-kept-secrets america
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
expectations revolutionary speed
Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.
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.
pain communication games
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.
lawyer beavers mainstream
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
small-business individual bigs
Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.
information conclusion humans
It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.
country government entrepreneur
...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.
embedded
The future is embedded in the present.
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.
american-businessman mainstream
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
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.
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.