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• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

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  Life, Change, Future

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

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  Mean, Technology, Century

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

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  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Reality

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• The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

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  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

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• If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

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  Feet, Perspective, Fields

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

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  Skills, Important, Constantly Learning

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Balance

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• The future is embedded in the present.

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  Embedded

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• The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

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  Future, Trying, Way

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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

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  Running, Acceptance, Keys

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• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

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  Wisdom, Data, Intuition

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

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  Powerful, Player, World

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• America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

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  Country, Reading, Cities

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

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  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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• In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.

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  Pain, Communication, Games

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

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  Horse, Trends, Easier

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• The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

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  Order, Leader, Giver

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• Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

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  Thinking

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• Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

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  Precious Things

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• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

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  Business, Vision, Firsts

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• Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

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  Inspirational, People, Pay

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• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Race

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• Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

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  Small Business, Individual, Beats

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