John Naisbitt

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John Naisbitt (* 1929) is an American writer in the area of futures studies. He is best known for authoring the international bestsellers Megatrends, which was written in 1982 and Re-inventing the Corporation. Megatrends was translated and published in 57 countries and was for many weeks in the first place as non-fiction book in the bestseller lists in the USA, Japan and Germany. The New York Times had it on its bestseller list for more than 2 years, it sold more than 8 million copies.

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He studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities. As executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak he gained business experiences, as Special Assistant to President Johnson he had political experiences. His academic career includes fellowship at Harvard, professorship at Moscow State University. At the moment he is faculty member of the Nanjing University in China and holds 15 honorary doctorates. He was formerly married to his co-author Patricia Aburdene. Remarried to an Austrian, he now lives in Vienna.

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Megatrends. Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. Warner Books, 1982
Reinventing the Corporation. Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society. Warner Books, 1985
Megatrends 2000. Ten New Directions for the 1990´s. William & Morrow Company, Inc., 1990
Global Paradox. The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994
Megatrends Asia. Eight Asian Megatrends That Are Reshaping Our World. Simon & Schuster, 1996
High Tech/High Touch. Technology and our Accelerated Search for Meaning. Nicholas Braely Publishing, 2001.