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

Alvin Toffler

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Betray Education Spring Youth
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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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Science Talking Together
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Cycles Faster Pace
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Destiny Future Responsibility

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

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