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Mindsets to identify Megatrends
Part II of Mind Set!, based on the 11 Mindsets of Part
One, provides forecasts of what will shape the first
half of the 21st century. It examines the forces that
are driving the shift from “Nation Borders to
Economic Borders.” The consequence is the need
of a new index: Global Domains as the measure of performance
and as a guide to judge and evaluate the standing of
our own field of endeavor. Living in Europe since 2000,
John Naisbitt describes the European Union as a statue
with 2 hearts and 27 mindsets, each heart beating towards
a different goal: to be a welfare paradise or the most
dynamic knowledge driven economy of the world.
Mindset Part II offers a picture of China's neglected
decentralization -- in China the Periphery is the center,
and those centers are in furious competition for shares
in the global markets. The chapter on a “Visual
World” illustrates the demands of new ways of
communication. And lastly, “The Evolutionary Era”
reveals itself as a reservoir of innovation.
The world is never transforming as a whole, nor is everything
changing. We need to distinguish between the paths that
are reaching into the future and those which will just
be a blip on the screen of the world. Part II is the
frame, in which you can reconstruct the process of seeking,
choosing and evaluating the pieces, which, connected
in the right way, form your picture of the future.
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