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Mind set!: reset your thinking and see the future / John Naisbitt.

By: Publication details: New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2006.Description: xviii, 284 pages; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780061136894
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Mindsets -- While many things change, most things remain constant -- The future is embedded in the present -- Focus on the score of the game -- Understanding how powerful it is not have to be right -- See the future as a picture puzzle -- Don't get so far ahead of the parade that people don't know you're in it -- Resistance to change falls if benefits are real -- Things that we expect to happen always happen more slowly -- You don't get the results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities -- Don't add unless you subtract -- Don't forget the ecology of technology -- Part II: Pictures of the future -- Culture: a visual culture is taking over the world -- Economics: from nation-states to economic domains -- China: the periphery is the center -- Europe: mutually assured decline -- Our evolutionary era: reservoir of innovation
Summary: "In his Megatrends books, Naisbitt proved himself a far-sighted observer of our fast-changing world. This book discloses his secret of forecasting, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selects his most effective tools and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the twenty-first century." - From the Publisher
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BOOKS MAIN HM 901 N35 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00368

Includes index. Naisbitt, J. (2006). Mind set!: reset your thinking and see the future. New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Introduction -- Part I: Mindsets -- While many things change, most things remain constant -- The future is embedded in the present -- Focus on the score of the game -- Understanding how powerful it is not have to be right -- See the future as a picture puzzle -- Don't get so far ahead of the parade that people don't know you're in it -- Resistance to change falls if benefits are real -- Things that we expect to happen always happen more slowly -- You don't get the results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities -- Don't add unless you subtract -- Don't forget the ecology of technology -- Part II: Pictures of the future -- Culture: a visual culture is taking over the world -- Economics: from nation-states to economic domains -- China: the periphery is the center -- Europe: mutually assured decline -- Our evolutionary era: reservoir of innovation

"In his Megatrends books, Naisbitt proved himself a far-sighted observer of our fast-changing world. This book discloses his secret of forecasting, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selects his most effective tools and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the twenty-first century." - From the Publisher

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