In Mind Set!, John Naisbitt reveals how to develop and experience the power of 11 cognitive tools that will allow readers to understand the trends transforming their daily life and the world around them, so they can anticipate and act on the future. In a narrative that is captivating in its scope and reach––ranging from Yao Ming and the NBA to Goethe and Global Domains––Naisbitt liberates readers from the limitations of our routine ways of thinking with a step–by–step program to incorporate these new attitudes of mind and apply them in making decisions.
Naisbitt's Mind Set! has the actionable, big ideas and global economic forecasting that senior executives are demanding of high–level books today. Just as powerfully, the stories, examples, and voice of Mind Set! will connect with the non–business reader from the suburbs to the college campus. Underlying the mind sets is Naisbitt's sensibility that we need greater balance between the pace of technological change and the humanistic skills of self–knowledge, and his faith in the endless promise and power of learning.
]]>We all know what high tech is--these are the technologies that "make us available 24 hours a day, like a convenience store," Naisbitt writes. He says we live in a "technologically intoxicated zone," the symptoms of which include a continual search for quick fixes and lives that are "distanced and distracted." High touch, on the other hand, is the stuff we give up when we're tuned in to the technological world: hope and fear and longing, love and forgiveness, nature and spirituality. To discover where the twain shall meet, Naisbitt takes us on a journey that includes Celebration, Florida, the Disney-created community that was fully wired from the get-go; Martha Stewart, who shows people with complicated lives how to enjoy simple tasks like gardening; extreme sports and adventure travel, in which ordinary people expose themselves to the full fury of nature and gravity. And that's all just the first quarter of the book; Naisbitt goes on to look at how video games desensitize children to violence; the challenges the human genome project presents to religion and spirituality; and, finally, "specimen art," in which artists create disturbing images of life, death and human sexuality.
There's no conclusion, in the traditional sense, only a look at what's happening in our world. But the reader will probably take some sort of action after finishing High Tech/High Touch: switching off the cell phone for a few hours a day; permanently locking away the children's violent Nintendo games; maybe even booking a vacation at the most remote location possible. Anything to get away from the constant buzz of a wired world. --Lou Schuler
]]>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 country, interviewing journalists, entrepreneurs, academics, politicians, artists, dissidents, and expatriates. With the help of twenty-eight staff members of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin, they have monitored local newspapers in all of China's provinces to identify the evolving perspectives and deep forces underlying China's transformation. Their research reveals that China is not only undergoing fundamental changes but also creating an entirely new social and economic model—what the Naisbitt's call a “vertical democracy”—that is changing the rules of global trade and challenging Western democracy as the only acceptable form of governing.
The Naisbitts have identified 8 pillars as the foundation and drivers of China's new society:
<ul> <li>Emancipation of the Mind </li> <li>Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up</li> <li>Framing the Forest and Letting the Trees Grow</li> <li>Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones</li> <li>Artistic and Intellectual Ferment</li> <li>Joining the World</li> <li>Freedom and Fairness</li> <li>From Olympic Medals to Nobel Prizes</li> </ul>Examining each of these 8 pillars in great detail, China's Megatrends describes the new China for the knowledgeable and the newly curious, offering fresh and provocative insights and lessons to be learned.
]]>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
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