John Naisbitt

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John Naisbitt (born Jan. 15, 1929; Glenwood, Utah) is an American author and public speaker 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. Selling more than 9 million copies, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 2 years.

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He studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities. As an public relations assistant for Eastman Kodak between 1953 and 1955, beginning when he was 24 years old, he gained business experience, and he gained political experience as a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson He has had many major speaking engagements with IBM in India [1] and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter society [2]. He is currently a faculty member of Nanjing University in China and holds 15 honorary doctorates. He was formerly married to his co-author Patricia Aburdene. Remarried to his former German language publisher Doris Naisabitt, he now lives in Vienna. He has 5 children and 11 grandchildren from his marriage to his first wife, the former Noel Senior.

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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
Mind Set! Reset your Thinking and see the future. Collins, 2006.