Education
John Naisbitt studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities.
John Naisbitt studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities.
His first book Megatrends was published in 1982. lieutenant was the result of almost ten years of research. lieutenant was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, mostly as Number.
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Megatrends was published in 57 countries and sold more than 14 million copies. He gained business experience working for International Business Machines Corporation and Eastman Kodak. In the world of politics he was assistant to the Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy and served as special assistant to Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner during the Johnson administration.
He left Washington in 1966 and joined Science Research Associates.
In 1968 he founded his own company, the Urban Research Corporation. Naisbitt founded the Naisbitt China Institute, a non-profit, independent research institution studying the social, cultural and economic transformation of China located at Tianjin University.
In 2009, Naisbitt published China"s Megatrends, a book analyzing China"s rise. On futurists
Naisbitt has had a profound influence on leading modern day futurists, such as David Houle and others
On social and political thought
Although Naisbitt has not written an explicitly political book, Megatrends expressed early enthusiasm for radical centrist politics.
The book states, in bolded type, "The political left and right are dead. All the action is being generated by a radical center".
Adviser on Agricultural development to the royal government of Thailand, former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, faculty member at the Nanjing University in China, distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia – the first non-Asian to hold this appointment, professor at Nankai University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, member of the advisory Board of the Asia Business School, Tianjin, recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science.