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3 Versions of Globalization3 Versions of Globalization
Globalization 1.01492-1800Key Agent of Change: Muscle,Main questions:
Where does my country fit into global competition and opportunities? How can I go global and collaborate with others through my country?
Globalization 2.01800-2000Key Agent of Change: Multinational companiesMain Questions:
Where does my company fit into the global economy?How does it take advantage of the opportunities?How can I go global and collaborate with others through my company?
Globalization 3.0
2000-????Key Agent of Change: Flat-World PlatformMain Questions
Where do I as an individual fit into the global competition and opportunities of the dayHow can I, on my own, collaborate with others globally
10 Ways the world got flat10 Ways the world got flat
#1. WINDOWS
“The Windows-powered PC enabled millions of individuals, for the first time ever, to become authors of their own content in digital form....”
#2: World Wide Web
The World Wide Web “enabled more people to communicate and interact with more other people anywhere on the planet than ever before.”
#3. Work Flow Software
“...enable you to create virtual global offices and to access talent sitting in different parts of the world and have them complete tasks that you need completed in real time.”
#4. Uploading
enables people to “upload files and globalize content without going through any of the traditional hierarchical organizations or institutions.”
#5: Y2K Outsourcing
Y2K was a huge job. “Who in the world had enough software engineers to do it all? Answer: India.”
#6: Offshoring
“When a company takes one of its factories that is operating in Canton, Ohio, and moves the whole factory to Canton, China.”
#7: Supply-Chaining
Wal-Mart “knows that when hurricanes are coming, people tend to drink more beer. So the minute Wal-Mart’s meteorologists tell headquarters a hurricane is bearing down on Florida, its supply chain automatically adjusts
#8: Insourcing
“UPS is creating enabling platforms for anyone to take his or her business global or to vastly improve the efficiency of his or her global supply chain.”
#9: In-Forming
“Companies like Google, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, and TiVo have learned to thrive not by pushing products and services on their customers so much as by building collaborative systems that enable customers to pull on their own, and then responding with lightning quickness to what they pull.”
#10: The Steroids
Digital
Mobile
Personal
Virtual
Teaching in a flat world
Teaching in a flat world
1. “Learn HOW to learn”2. “Find your inner fire-truck”
3. “The Geeks may not inherit the earth after all”4. “Tubas and test-tubes”
1. “Learn HOW to learn”2. “Find your inner fire-truck”
3. “The Geeks may not inherit the earth after all”4. “Tubas and test-tubes”
1. Learn HOW to learn“To constantly absorb, and teach yourself, new ways of doing old things or new ways of doing new things.”
“To learn how to learn, you have to LOVE learning because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself.”
2. Find your inner fire truck“You can’t light the fire of passion in someone else if it doesn’t burn in you to begin with.”
Globalization 2.0 schools had one main purpose: “to produce employees for boxed positions in corporate org charts...”
CQ + PQ > IQ
Curiosity and Passion are more valuable than Intelligence.
“Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.”
3. The geeks may not inherit the earth
“Students need to be good at managing or interacting with other people.”
“Perhaps, contrary to what we have come to believe in recent years, people skills will become more valuable than computer skills.”
“Personalized high-touch interactions can never be outsourced or automated and are almost always necessary at some point.”
4. Tubas and Test Tubes“Now that foreigners can do left-brain work cheaper, we in the U.S. must do right-brain work better.”
“Relatively few people become accountants out of a sense of intrinsic motivation.”
“You have all the things you need to get your people from the old middle to the
new middle. If you get through the transition first, you will be the king of the
hill...but if people lose their nerve and protectionists come along and start
building walls, you will fail. It is an act of faith--you have to believe that it will
happen.”Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, a multinational
from India.
“We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is at
the cutting edge of that change, it is hard to predict. America is always on the edge of the
next creative wave...”Jaithirth Rao, CEO of Indian Accounting firm
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