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The Untouchables

Chapter 6

By Reem Zubaidi

What to say?

What do we tell our kids as competition for jobs stiffens, how do we prepare our kids?

Make yourself ‘untouchable’.

‘Wanna be like Mike’

Michael Jordan is an untouchable. He is so good at what he does, that he is completely secure and he can not be replaced.

Job Security

People who have job security in the flat world include:

Synthesizers

Explainers

Leveragers

Versatilists

Versatilists

Versatilists are able to change and adapt easily.

A versatilist can be good at doing one job, but then can switch to doing something else just as easily.

Jack of all traits.

Leveragers

These kinds of jobs use computers. They ‘combine the best of what computer can do with the best of what humans can do’.

Synthersizers

These are the workers who put things together. Even things that you would think don’t go together.

Explainers

These are the workers who can understand things that are very complicated ad explain them simply, in a way people can understand them.

Bibliography

http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/book-summary-the-world-is-flat.html

http://www.wikisummaries.org/The_World_Is_Flat#Chapter_Six_.E2.80.93_The_Untouchables

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/4387/thomas_friedman_suggests_level_economic.

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