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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

Alvin Toffler

Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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Criticism Wife Years
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Breathing Change Perspective
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

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