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 reality
The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.
society shifting entrepreneurial
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
spiritual teacher philosophy
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.
leadership parades findings
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
horse trends easier
Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
order leader giver
The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
feet perspective fields
If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
spiritual technology balance
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
mergers dinosaurs appearance
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
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.