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Mind Set!
Mind Set!
Mind Set!
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Mind Set!

Written by John Naisbitt

Narrated by Eric Conger

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In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world.

Mind Set! goes beyond that—Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selected his most effective tools, 11 Mind Sets, and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the 21st century.

Ilustrated by stories about Galileo and Einstein to today's icons and rebels in business, science, and sports, Mind Set! opens your eyes to see beyond media headlines, political slogans, and personal opinions, to select and judge what will form the pictures of the future.

Read by Eric Conger

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateOct 17, 2006
ISBN9780061230363
Mind Set!
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John Naisbitt

John Naisbitt has been studying and visiting China for forty-two years, first in 1967, with more than one hundred visits since. A former professor at Nanjing University, he is currently a professor at both Nankai University and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    John Naisbitt begins this book with a reference to the story The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery. If you’ve not read that book then I strongly recommend that you do. It’s a ‘children’s’ story, (he talks of reading it to his six year old), and can be read in even the most hectic of schedules. The reference Naisbitt makes to ‘The Little Price’ is to how we don’t see what is before us, only what we are able to see, and this idea echoes throughout the book.In the first half of the book he describes eleven mindsets or ways through which we see and understand the world. The key point here is that the world doesn’t exist for us to observe, it exists because we observe it, and exists only in the ways that we are able to observe it.In the eleven mindsets the description covers both what we see because of how we see, and what we may be able to see should we be able to change how we see.I won’t list the eleven mindsets, but a few of them I found particularly useful,4. Understanding how powerful it is not to have to be right5. See the future a as picture puzzle.9. You don’t get results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities.11. Don’t forget the ecology of technologyIn the second half of the book he then takes some of these mindsets and applies them to what we are encouraged to call the ‘real world’ and extrapolates some futures.Here there are some interesting thoughts on our movement towards a visually centered culture, an economic shift from nation states to economic domains and some scathing perspectives on Europe. Personally whilst this is the part of the book that attracts most attention, I find this less interesting. Having described the mechanism of mindsets as the vehicle to see in new ways, to then suggest what we will see in the future seems to offer answers and obscure the fact that the real jewel of the book is that he is inviting us to ask questions.However this is a thought provoking book, and well worth reading.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    John Naisbitt has inspired me to think in new ways and to be able to anticipate the future in a clearer way.

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