Book Title: The World is Flat. A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Edition: Published with updates 2006
First edition: 2005
Publisher: Penguin books
Section: America and the flat world
After he has given support to "prove" his hypothesis that the World has gone flat, Tom goes on to analyze what's the position and what should America do to thrive successfully in this new world.
America has all the qualities to thrive, including the edge of being the most powerful economy and the right kind of people to do so. However, America is in "crisis", a quite crisis which is not being noticed but which is making them loose ground to other economies.
The people who will succeed in this world are those he calls untouchables. they are people who are able to adapt themselves to new situations, to update themselves often and quickly, always improving and always looking for new edges, thus they are untouchable because they never become obsolete.
He gives the example of a lady, who even though she dropped College and never went back, she went on adapting herself, always seeking new things to learn so that, the moment her job became not needed any longer, she would be able to give a leap before falling into unemployment. Thus, she was a great adapter.
America's problem is that they aren't educating their people to be that untouchables which they require to be. Their system is not good because of lack of basics; because they have too many lawyers and too few engineers and mathematicians. is no tjust that of course, but certainly is a problem in education.
He ends by saying that "this is not a test". America is loosing ground and ahs to wake up soon to the reality and start working for it.
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Edition: Published with updates 2006
First edition: 2005
Publisher: Penguin books
Section: America and the flat world
After he has given support to "prove" his hypothesis that the World has gone flat, Tom goes on to analyze what's the position and what should America do to thrive successfully in this new world.
America has all the qualities to thrive, including the edge of being the most powerful economy and the right kind of people to do so. However, America is in "crisis", a quite crisis which is not being noticed but which is making them loose ground to other economies.
The people who will succeed in this world are those he calls untouchables. they are people who are able to adapt themselves to new situations, to update themselves often and quickly, always improving and always looking for new edges, thus they are untouchable because they never become obsolete.
He gives the example of a lady, who even though she dropped College and never went back, she went on adapting herself, always seeking new things to learn so that, the moment her job became not needed any longer, she would be able to give a leap before falling into unemployment. Thus, she was a great adapter.
America's problem is that they aren't educating their people to be that untouchables which they require to be. Their system is not good because of lack of basics; because they have too many lawyers and too few engineers and mathematicians. is no tjust that of course, but certainly is a problem in education.
He ends by saying that "this is not a test". America is loosing ground and ahs to wake up soon to the reality and start working for it.
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