If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLERMost managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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.
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