After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and after finishing his studies in at Utah, Cornell and Harvard, he worked as an executive in the coporate world, was called to be Assistant Secretary of Education under President Kennedy when he was 34, and worked as Special Assistant for President Johnson. He has witnessed America going troubled times and good times. He has traveled the world since the late 1960s, keeping in close touch with corporations and people in many fields of endeavor. He has spoken to virtually every major corporation, to many several times. His cultural life and residence in the United States, Europe and now China keeps him in direct in touch with a changing economic environment -- experience that is reflected in the books he has written.
His international bestseller Megatrends sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times bestsellerlist for more than two years, mostly as number one. John Naisbitt published the international bestsellers Re-inventing the Corporation in 1985, Megatrends 2000 in 1990, which was published in 32 countries and was the Number One bestseller in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, and Megatrends for Women in 1992 (co-authored with Patricia Aburdene). His Japanese language book, Japan's Identity Crisis, was released in 1992 and was a bestseller in Japan.
His 1994 book, Global Paradox, received England's World Review Award for The Best Book of The Year. Megatrends Asia 1995, was a bestseller in the German language and in Asia. High Tech High Touch was published in the fall of 1999 and has since been published in 17 countries. Mind Set! was published in 42 countries. The Wall Street Journal called his work “triumphantly useful…taking bearings in all directions and giving us the courage to do the same.”
John's goal is to help his audience to step back from short term disruptions, alternating favored business theories and practicies and create a picture of the fundamental restructering that is taking place in the world today. A sense of the near future allows us to create and communicate a vision, based on the demands and needs to come.
He has spoken to almost all major corporations of the world. He travels around the globe several times a year. He and his wife divide their time living in Vienna, Austria and in Tainjin, China. For two years the research team of The Naisbitt China Institute, located at Tianjin University, adds an important part to the decription Naisbitt gives of the rearrangements in the global economy. Looming larger and larger in the new picture is of course China.
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