Chapter 7 World is Flat

1. Chapter 7 World is Flat The Right Stuff

2. Five different skill sets that will be vital

3. Learning how to learn • Enjoying learning • Being a self teacher

4. Navigation • Encyclopedia vs. Wikipedia • Being able to separate what is true and what is junk on the Internet.

5. CQ + PQ > IQ • Curiosity and passion quotient becoming more important than IQ • Children with these traits are self-motivated to learn and discover new things. • “Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.” • Reasons for Hire – Teachers

6. Liberal Arts • “Before you can connect the dots, you need dots to connect”. • Liberal Arts are the dot creators • Necessity for Innovation

7. Right Brain • Left Brain Activities = Activities more likely to be outsourced. • Right Brain – Context, emotional expression, and synthesis. • Thinking Conceptually and Horizontally.

8. Tubas and Test Tubes • Using one field of thought to help innovate in another. • Georgia Institute of Technology’s admission strategy

9. The Right Country • Is America well set to prepare the next generation for these jobs?

10. Answer is Yes Reasons • America has a relatively flexible, free market economy. • Institutional strength • Capital Market Strength • Best-regulated and most efficient capital markets

11. Cont’d • Intellectual Property Protection • Flexible Labor Laws • Largest domestic consumer market • Political stability

12. Basis of all of this is Trust The underlying theme to all this is trust. Trust is what has allowed America to mix together institutions, laws, and cultural norms. Add innovation and collaboration to trust and we have a renewable economy which is able to constantly raise the standard of living. Nothing in the flat world cannot be handled by America, as long as we roll up our sleeves, educate our young people the right way, and tend to and enrich the secrets of the sauce.