LC control no. | n 79137031 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Naisbitt, John |
Variant(s) | Naiisbit, Yoqan Naisibite, Yuehan ジョン・ネスビッツ 奈思比.约翰 |
Associated place | McLean (Va.) |
Located | Velden am Wörthersee (Austria) Chicago (Ill.) Washington (D.C.) |
Birth date | 1929-01-15 |
Death date | 2021-04-08 |
Place of birth | Salt Lake City (Utah) |
Place of death | Velden am Wörthersee (Austria) |
Affiliation | PRC Energy Analysis Company Naisbitt Group Center for Policy Process |
Profession or occupation | Business analysts Futurologists |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
Found in | Satellite power system (SPS) centralization/decentralization, 1978: t.p. (John Naisbitt, PRC Energy Analysis Company, McLean, Va.) High tech/high touch, 1999: CIP t.p. (John Naisbitt) data sheet (b. 01/15/29) Yeke qandusi, 1988: t.p. (Yoqan Naiisbit) colophon (Yuehan Naisibite) Washington post WWW site, viewed April 13, 2021 (in obituary dated April 11, 2021: John Naisbitt, a business analyst and prognosticator whose 1982 book "Megatrends" that projected trends in business and society became a bestseller and made him an adviser to presidents, prime ministers and corporate titans, died April 8 at his home in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria. He was 92. Mr. Naisbitt, a onetime public relations executive and federal official, became an independent business analyst in the late 1960s, first in Chicago and later in Washington. By the early 1980s, when he was running the Naisbitt Group in Washington, his researchers were reading 250 newspapers and dozens of magazines a day. John Harling Naisbitt was born Jan. 15, 1929, in Salt Lake City. He was a publicist and speechwriter for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., before moving to Chicago, where worked for the Great Books Foundation, National Safety Council and the public relations department of Montgomery Ward. He first came to Washington in 1963 to work at the U.S. Education Commission and later as an assistant to John W. Gardner, the secretary of the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Mr. Naisbitt returned to Chicago in 1966 and founded his first research firm two years later, publishing reports and newsletters for major companies, foundations and government agencies. He moved to Washington in the mid-1970s, founding a nonprofit called the Center for Policy Process. He moved to Austria after his third marriage in 2000) |
Associated language | eng |