John Naisbitt
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and after finishing his studies in at Utah, Cornell and Harvard, he worked as an executive in the coporate world, was called to be Assistant Secretary of Education under President Kennedy when he was 34, and worked as Special Assistant for President Johnson. He has witnessed America going throubled times and good times. He has traveled the world since the late 1960s, keeping in close touch with corporations and people in many fields of endeavor. He has spoken to virtually every major corporation, to many several times. His cultural life and residence in the United States, Europe and now China keeps him in direct in touch with a changing economic environment -- experience that is reflected in the books he has written. His international bestseller Megatrends sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times bestsellerlist for more than two years, mostly as number one. John Naisbitt published the international bestsellers Re-inventing the Corporation in 1985, Megatrends 2000 in 1990, which was published in 32 countries and was the Number One bestseller in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, and Megatrends for Women in 1992 (co-authored with Patricia Aburdene). His Japanese language book, Japan's Identity Crisis, was released in 1992 and was a bestseller in Japan. His 1994 book, Global Paradox, received England's World Review Award for The Best Book of The Year. Megatrends Asia 1995, was a bestseller in the German language and in Asia. High Tech High Touch, was published in the fall of 1999 and has since been published in 17 countries. His last book Mind Set! was published in 42 countries. The Wall Street Journal called his work “triumphantly useful…taking bearings in all directions and giving us the courage to do the same.” * Studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities * Former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak * Assistant Secretary of Education to President Kennedy * Special Assistant to President Johnson * Former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, and current faculty member at the * Nanjing University in China * Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia -- the first non-Asian to hold this appointment * Recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science Source: His Official Web page
13 Books Written
In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 , John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world. Mind Set! goes beyond that— Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He
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Predicting that big business and government will be unable to meet the economic challenges of the twenty-first century, the author of Megatrends explains how the telecommunications revolution is empowering small and multinational companies. Reprint.
[This book is written in Japanese.] This book is one of the Tachibana Publishing Future Book Series (Japanese Edition), a series of books with the world’s leading futurists and social analysts. This series looks at future perspectives in a variety of fields- economics, ecology, management, leadership, stock markets, culture, and social issues Â
Re-Inventing the Corporation: Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society
by John Naisbitt
Rating: 3.3 ⭐
Describes how the new information society is altering the nature of the workplace and how some corporations are responding
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A groundbreaking look at a new social-political model on the rise John and Doris Naisbitt, longtime China observers, provide an in-depth study of the fundamental changes in China's social, political, and economic life, and their impact on the West. With extraordinary access, and using the same techniques behind John Naisbitt's international bestseller Megatrends , the Naisbitts have traveled the c
An invaluable guide to a rapidly changing world Nearly two decades have passed since thepublication of the groundbreaking national bestsellerMegatrends--and a remarkable number of itscontroversial prophecies have come to pass. Nowthe forecasters who accurately predicted the shape ofthe '80s turn their sights on the coming new century.And what they see will astound, excite, and profoundlytouch the
Chengdu ? a model for ChinaOCOs Innovation path How could Chengdu, in less than a decade, transform from an underdeveloped inland city to become the leader in urban rural integration, home to ultra modern high tech parks and host to more than 200 of Fortune 500 companies? Two years of the authorsOCO research have resulted in the theory of the Chengdu Triangle: property rights reform, equaliz
Global Game Change: How the Global Southern Belt will reshape our world
by John Naisbitt
Rating: 3.0 ⭐
They captured the essence of the times in their massively influential book Megatrends (selling 14 000 000), so will Global Game Change; where it offers analysis and an indispensable road map of the transforming of the global landscape - enabling entrepreneurs, corporations and governments to reposition themselves to new global conditions.Our purpose, wrote John and Doris Naisbitt, in t
Mastering Megatrends: Understanding and Leveraging the Evolving New World
by John Naisbitt
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
Ever since Megatrends was published in 1982, the question that often crops up is 'What's the next megatrend?' But megatrends do not come every second year. All you can do is keep your eyes open, and that's what Doris and John Naisbitt did. The results of their research are mind boggling. What we are witnessing is the path to a complete change of the global game. Not as the transformation described
