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The revised, updated edition of this bestseller documents the tremendous strides made and empowerment achieved by women in politics, medicine, commerce, religion, athletics, and other areas of public life since the onset of the '90s.

Following on from "Megatrends", this book identifies and describes the important forces of the 1990s, including the global economic boom, free-market socialism, women in leadership and the privatization of the welfare state. The book focuses on the contribution each individual can make.

Within five years, predicts bestselling author John Naisbitt, a new commonwealth of Asian nations will become the dominant economic, political, and cultural influence in the world. Writing in the same vein as his previous Megatrends bestsellers, Naisbitt reveals the explosive changes currently taking place in Asia and describes how this global shift will affect the rest of the world.

Details America's shift from industrial production to providing services and information.

Annotation The one great megatrend of the new millennium.

Focuses on the contribution each individual can make in the 1990s.

In two previous best-sellers, John Naisbitt identified major global trends over the last fifteen years, including economic globalization, technological innovation, and cultural resurgence. Now, he introduces a transformative concept: a Global Paradox where larger systems yield smaller, more powerful units. Countries and corporations are breaking down into essential, smaller components. Multinational firms are either adapting dramatically or failing, while empires are dissolving in favor of looser economic alliances. Nationalist movements in regions like Quebec and Scotland are gaining unprecedented strength. Naisbitt posits that explosive advancements in telecommunications drive this paradox, fostering a vast global economy while empowering its individual parts. Tourism, the fastest-growing industry, embodies this shift, creating infrastructures that uplift Third World economies and enhancing our interest in diverse cultures. This tribalism, paradoxically, emerges as we become more globalized, potentially leading to the formation of new countries and empowered tribal groups. China serves as a test case, with its shift from central planning to individual entrepreneurship positioning it to become a leading economy. Naisbitt's insights provide a glimpse into the future, highlighting potential winners and losers in the global market and the evolving rules of political and business conduct worldwide. His work offers a profound unde

Describes how the new information society is altering the nature of the workplace and how some corporations are responding

In his Megatrends books, Naisbitt proved himself a far-sighted observer of our fast-changing world. This book discloses his secret of forecasting, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selects his most effective tools and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the twenty-first century.--From publisher description.

A groundbreaking look at a new social-political model on the rise John and Doris Naisbitt, longtime China observers, provide an in-depth study of the fundamental changes in China's social, political, and economic life, and their impact on the West. With extraordinary access, and using the same techniques behind John Naisbitt's international bestseller Megatrends , the Naisbitts have traveled the country, interviewing journalists, entrepreneurs, academics, politicians, artists, dissidents, and expatriates. With the help of twenty-eight staff members of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin, they have monitored local newspapers in all of China's provinces to identify the evolving perspectives and deep forces underlying China's transformation. Their research reveals that China is not only undergoing fundamental changes but also creating an entirely new social and economic model—what the Naisbitts call a "vertical democracy"—that is changing the rules of global trade and challenging Western democracy as the only acceptable form of governing. The Naisbitts have identified 8 pillars as the foundation and drivers of China's new Examining each of these 8 pillars in great detail, China's Megatrends describes the new China for the knowledgeable and the newly curious, offering fresh and provocative insights and lessons to be learned.