http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/03/31/looking-to-tomorrow-2005-and-beyond/ Blogging about Tomorrow's world Today Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/03/31/looking-to-tomorrow-2005-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-1808 graeme Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:04:22 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/03/31/looking-to-tomorrow-2005-and-beyond/#comment-1808 Tom Peters will be in South Africa in June. Here is the blurb from the advert for one of his seminars:Ten Hard Truths about Inevitabilities, Pitfalls, and Matchless Opportunities by Tom Peters 1. "Off-shoring " will continue; the tide cannot be reversed 2. Service jobs are a bigger issue than manufacturing jobs, by an order of magnitude. 3. The automation of business processes is as big a phenomenon in job shrinkage as off-shoring. 4. We are in the middle of a once every hundred years ’ (or so) productivity burst -- which is good for us ... in the long haul. 5. Job churn is normal and necessary: The more the better ... in the long haul. 6. Americans ’ "unearned wage advantage " (Born in the U.S.A. ) could be erased ... permanently. 7. The wholesale, increasingly upscale entry of 2.5 billion people (China, India) into the global economy at an accelerating rate is virtually unfathomable. Unfathomable = Unpredictable, exceptional challenges, amazing opportunities. 8. For my future grandkids ’ sake, I relish the idea of billions of wealthy, relatively happy Indians and Chinese -- rather than the idea of billions of impoverished people pissed off at wealthy Americans. 9. Free trade works - PERIOD. It makes the world a safer place ... in the long haul. The process is not pretty at times. (Sometimes long times.) Those who dutifully followed yesterday ’s rules yet are displaced must be helped when the "rules change. " Such help must not be in perpetuity -- it demands a sunset date. 10. THE USA WILL NEVER AGAIN BE AS DOMINANT AS IT IS TODAY. BUT IT CAN REMAIN IN THE TOP SPOT AS LONG AS IT OBSESS ON FIVE THINGS: RESEARCH-INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EDUCATION, FREE TRADE-OPEN SOCIETY, AND SELF-RELIANCE. Tom Peters will be in South Africa in June. Here is the blurb from the advert for one of his seminars:Ten Hard Truths about Inevitabilities, Pitfalls, and Matchless Opportunities by Tom Peters 1. “Off-shoring ” will continue; the tide cannot be reversed 2. Service jobs are a bigger issue than manufacturing jobs, by an order of magnitude. 3. The automation of business processes is as big a phenomenon in job shrinkage as off-shoring. 4. We are in the middle of a once every hundred years ’ (or so) productivity burst — which is good for us … in the long haul. 5. Job churn is normal and necessary: The more the better … in the long haul. 6. Americans ’ “unearned wage advantage ” (Born in the U.S.A. ) could be erased … permanently. 7. The wholesale, increasingly upscale entry of 2.5 billion people (China, India) into the global economy at an accelerating rate is virtually unfathomable. Unfathomable = Unpredictable, exceptional challenges, amazing opportunities. 8. For my future grandkids ’ sake, I relish the idea of billions of wealthy, relatively happy Indians and Chinese — rather than the idea of billions of impoverished people pissed off at wealthy Americans. 9. Free trade works – PERIOD. It makes the world a safer place … in the long haul. The process is not pretty at times. (Sometimes long times.) Those who dutifully followed yesterday ’s rules yet are displaced must be helped when the “rules change. ” Such help must not be in perpetuity — it demands a sunset date. 10. THE USA WILL NEVER AGAIN BE AS DOMINANT AS IT IS TODAY. BUT IT CAN REMAIN IN THE TOP SPOT AS LONG AS IT OBSESS ON FIVE THINGS: RESEARCH-INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EDUCATION, FREE TRADE-OPEN SOCIETY, AND SELF-RELIANCE.

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