John Naisbitt

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John Naisbitt (b. January 15, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. His first book Megatrends was published in 1982. It was the result of almost ten years of research and is one of the biggest successes in the publishing world. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, mostly as #1. Megatrends was published in 57 countries and sold more than 9 million copies.

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He studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities. He gained business experience working for Eastman Kodak. In the world of politics he was assistant commissioner of education under President John F. Kennedy and as special assistant to HEW Secretary John Gardner during the Johnson administration. He left Washington in 1966 and joined Science Research Associates. In 1968 he founded his own company, the Urban Research Corporation.

Studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah University
Former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak
Assistant Secretary of Education to President John F. Kennedy
Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson
Adviser on Agricultural development to the royal government of Thailand
Former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University,
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
Chairman of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin
Professor at Nankai University
Professor at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics
Member of the advisory Board of the Asia Business School, Tianjin
Recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science

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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 1990s. 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.