Who doesn't know John Naisbitt? When I took up my assignment at the ITB Industrial Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Anang Zaini Gani, my supervisor, handed me a book entitled "Megatrends" which, really, I didn't understand what it meant. He assigned me to study the book in one of the courses I took and write a paper on this subject. With all kinds of limitations, it was difficult for me to understand, let alone absorb, the contents of the book. Then, I just tried to "translate" in garbled language, without understanding. During the consultation with Pak Anang, I didn't understand more, I was even more frustrated because I didn't know what this book was talking about.
After I graduated, I found out that in the past I had “tried to understand” what was called “hi-tech” and “hi-touch”. However, it was in the world of work that I finally got a feel for what John Naisbitt meant by the term. That's the power of a mind set. Naisbitt defines mindset simply as the area where rain falls. If the area is a flat solid object (eg glass) then rainwater forms water droplets in that area. However, when the rain falls on fertile soil, what is seen is the infiltration of the soil which becomes wet. Back with the "Megatrends" experience, before my brain still had a flat surface so it didn't want to sink in. After work, I become more open and able to absorb like the fertile soil before.
The book "Megatrends", which sold nine million copies, has soared Naisbitt's name so that the two carry identical meanings. Twenty-five years later Naisbitt wrote a book called "Mind Set!" which tries to review the mindset and picture of the future. This is different from "Megatrends" and "Megatrends 2000" which are more focused on describing the future. Precisely in this book John Naisbitt reviews why he could come to conclusions like the previous book. He did this because several of his studies found that, among other things, the predictions made were exaggerated, even unrealistic.
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