Quote of the Week - April 18th 2011

“Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”

Alvin Toffler

He also said, "Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who work in hospitals. Society needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone."

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The Third Wave, was named by Accenture as a top 10 thinker and writer on management topics.