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

Alvin Toffler

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
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
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Civilization Political Technology
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision

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

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