Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share
