The author's writings are deeply rooted in his rich experiences, from service in the U.S. Marine Corps to roles in politics and the global corporate world. Extensive world travels and direct engagement with changing economic environments, from the United States and Europe to his current life in China, provide a unique perspective. This blend of practical insights and worldwide observations allows the author to analyze current trends and anticipate future directions with remarkable clarity. Celebrated for its "triumphantly useful" nature, his work offers readers the courage to navigate an ever-evolving world.
From the author of the New York Times bestseller, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, comes the new title on dealing with the complexity of change. It is one thing to spot the real trends from the fads, but it is another whole new ball game to deal with the incoming trend. This is the centrepiece of Mastering Megatrends.
This book aims to introduce the geographical and economic foundations and the expected goals of "The Belt and Road" in a clear and logical manner. Readers are expected to understand the potential implications of this vision for China, countries and regions countries involved, as well as its potential impacts on investors and corporations. In addition, the book tells interested readers how to get involved and benefit from it. ''The Belt and Road'' idea involves more than 100 countries and over 60% of the world's population. Creating Megatrends: The Belt and Road fully reveals the opportunities, challenges and risks of this magnificent yet experimental initiative.
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 Naisbitts 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 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.
Identifies eleven attitudes and skills that readers of any experience level can use to anticipate and respond to global shifts, in a guide that cites the importance of embracing change while making predictions about five up-and-coming trends
First introducing the concept of high tech/high touch in his bestselling "Megatrends", Naisbitt now sharpens his focus on the one great megatrend of the new millennium: the impact of technology--genetic technology being the most influential of all--on society, our culture, our personal lives, and the lives of our children.
Within five years, predicts bestselling author John Naisbitt, a new commonwealth of Asian nations will become the dominant economic, political, and cultural influence in the world. Writing in the same vein as his previous Megatrends bestsellers, Naisbitt reveals the explosive changes currently taking place in Asia and describes how this global shift will affect the rest of the world.
The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players
In two previous blockbuster international best-sellers, John Naisbitt comprehensively identified the major trends that have swept through every sector of our world in the last fifteen years: from the globalization of the economy to the surging impact of technological innovation to the renewed power of culture in our lives. Now we confront a new pulse of change, a Global Paradox that will surely transform our lives:. The larger the system, the smaller and more powerful and important the parts. Countries and companies are deconstructing into vital, smaller and smaller units. Multinational corporations are dramatically changing the way they do business or falling by the wayside. Empires are crumbling while looser economic alliances are on the rise. Nationalist movements in Quebec, Scotland, and throughout the former Soviet Bloc suddenly have a new, unprecedented vitality. In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt builds a powerful instrument of comprehension from this one profound and vital insight about the seemingly chaotic changes that appear to grip our world. The Paradox, as he sees it, is powered by the explosive developments in telecommunications which are the driving forces simultaneously creating the huge global economy and multiplying and empowering its parts. The Global Paradox is funded by the largest and fastest-growing industry in the world - tourism. Tourism is the face-to-face corollary of the communications revolution. Tourism creates infrastructures and can lift Third World economies; tourism incites our interest in other cultures and tribes - gives them validity, makes us want to visit them. The force shaking the foundations of huge economic and political structures is this same tribalism: The more universal we become, the more tribal we act. This tribalism will bring hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new countries into existence and will empower thousands of diverse, tribally affiliated groups. For the Global Paradox, China is the test case. Central economic planning got China nowhere. Now the individual entrepreneurs of China are swiftly moving in the direction of becoming the world's largest economy. Founded on these fundamental principles, Global Paradox offers a glimpse of the near-term future: the likely winners and losers in the global marketplace, the sectors of growth and stagnation in the world economy, the new rules that will soon determine standards of political and business behavior from Tokyo to New York to Sydney, to Santiago and Shanghai, to Kuala Lumpur and all points in between. Global Paradox is a noteworthy direction for John Naisbitt: a single conceptual breakthrough that applies a strikingly sharp vision to seemingly disparate trends in many areas of our lives. In the years and months to come, no informed reader can afford to ignore its awesome vision of the opportunities and challenges presented to nations, businesses, and individuals at millennium's end
The revised, updated edition of this bestseller documents the tremendous strides made and empowerment achieved by women in politics, medicine, commerce, religion, athletics, and other areas of public life since the onset of the '90s.
Following on from "Megatrends", this book identifies and describes the important forces of the 1990s, including the global economic boom, free-market socialism, women in leadership and the privatization of the welfare state. The book focuses on the contribution each individual can make.
