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John Naisbitt

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January 15, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States

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http://www.naisbitt.com

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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 h...more 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
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Average rating: 3.48 · 555 ratings · 58 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives 3.49 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1982 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future 3.42 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning by John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Philips (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Global Paradox by John Naisbitt, Naisbitt 3.21 avg rating — 39 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Megatrends Asia 3.51 avg rating — 47 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Megatrends, 2000 by John Naisbitt, Patricia Aburdene 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt 2.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Re-Inventing the Corporation: Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society by John Naisbitt, Patricia Aburdene 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Re Inventing The Corporation: Transforming Your Job And Your Company For The New Information Society by John Naisbitt, Patricia Aburdene 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating: