John Naisbitt

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 14 million copies.

Biography

He studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities. He gained business experience working for IBM and Eastman Kodak. In the world of politics he was assistant to the Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy and served 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 to the Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, under 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

Bibliography

• 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.

External links

• John Naisbitt's official home page
• USA Today ("Naisbitt turns lust for life into mega book career") 25-Sep-2006 (archived copy at archive.org)
• Financial Times Deutschland
• http://stockpunkt.com/2007/11/28/john-naisbitt-its-china-stupid/ John Naisbitt today
• Complete book summary of Megatrends - Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives

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