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The future is embedded in the present.
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Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
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Inspirational
Pay
People
Willing
Value
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The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
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Giver
Leader
Order
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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
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Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Book
Drowning
Information
Reading
Starved
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Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.
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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
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Leadership
Findings
Inspiring Leader
Parades
Getting
Finding
Front
Involves
Parade
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The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
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Constantly Learning
Important
Skills
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Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
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Precious
Precious Thing
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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
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Mainstream
Beaver
Dam
Like Up Get
Lawyers
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The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.
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Player
Powerful
World
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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
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Beavers
Lawyer
Mainstream
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Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
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Easier
Horse
Trends
Direction
Horses
Ride
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
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Change
Society
Entrepreneurial
Shifting
Managerial
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Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
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Business
Firsts
Planning
Strategic
Vision
Worthless
First
Unless
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The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
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Future
Trying
Way
Understand
Try
Forecast
Present
Reliable
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In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.
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Art
Medicine
Mistake
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In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
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Quality
People
Seems
Search
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The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
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Appearance
Dinosaurs
Mergers
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It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.
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Conclusion
Humans
Information
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The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
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Inspiring
Success
Motivation
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Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.
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Expectations
Revolutionary
Speed
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Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.
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Beats
Individual
Small Business
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We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
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Technology
Balance
Human Race
Race
Spiritual
Demands
Material
Wonders
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In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
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Stunned
World Me Everything
Marines
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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Growing
Mere
People
Prime
Tools
Profits
Tool
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Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
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Wisdom
Society
Data
Information
Intuition
New Information
Valuable
Becomes
Increasingly
Precisely
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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.
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People
Spiritual
Two
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The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
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Technology
Concerts
Rock Concerts
Rocks
Shopping
Aggregate
Introduce
More People
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In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.
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Climbing
Empowering
Hierarchy
Rewards
Climb
Network
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One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
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America
Best Kept Secrets
Commitment
Environment
Aching
Secrets
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The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
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Technology
Century
Mean
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The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.
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Technology
Reality
Spiritual
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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them.
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America
Findings
Parades
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We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
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Running
Acceptance
Keys
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We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
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Computer
Needed
Restructure
Track
Hierarchical
Managerial
System
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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
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Change
Life
Learning
Smile
Alone
Future
Acquire
Important
World
Most
Will
Now
Life Alone Future
Constantly
Changing
How
Rest
Foreseeable
Foreseeable Future
Learn
Serve
Skill
Subject
The Most Important
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If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
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Feet
Fields
Perspective
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America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.
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Cities
Country
Reading
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Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
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Technology
Balance
Human Nature
New Technology
Rejected
Response
Spiritual
Touch
Demands
High
Introduced
Material
Wonders
Whenever
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...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.
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Government
Country
Entrepreneur
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I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
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Adoption
Carrier
Common
Euro
Events
Giving
Giving Up
Identity
Me People See
Me Identity People
Heroes
Celebrating
Me People Identity
Countries
Cultural
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
National
Seemed
Tender
Tune
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I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
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Government
Gone
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Lifetime
Sex
Short Time
Spread
Taboo
Totally
Considerations
Governments
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Surprised
Turned
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Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.
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Action
Order
Spontaneous
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In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.
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Communication
Games
Pain
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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.
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Teacher
Philosophy
Spiritual
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The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries
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Education
Country
Our World
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