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.
ALVIN TOFFLERMost managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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