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Naisbitt, John

LC control no.n 79137031
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Personal name headingNaisbitt, John
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Variant(s)Naiisbit, Yoqan
Naisibite, Yuehan
ジョン・ネスビッツ
奈思比.约翰
Associated placeMcLean (Va.)
LocatedVelden am Wörthersee (Austria) Chicago (Ill.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date1929-01-15
Death date2021-04-08
Place of birthSalt Lake City (Utah)
Place of deathVelden am Wörthersee (Austria)
AffiliationPRC Energy Analysis Company Naisbitt Group
Center for Policy Process
Profession or occupationBusiness analysts Futurologists
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inSatellite 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 languageeng