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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Anger Real Society
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
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
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Change Corporations Country
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave

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