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
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.
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.
mergers dinosaurs appearance
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
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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.
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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
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Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.
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It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.
embedded
The future is embedded in the present.
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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.
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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
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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.
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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.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.