Globalization 1.0 1492-1800 Key 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 2.0 1800-2000 Key Agent of Change: Multinational companies Main 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 Platform Main Questions Where do I as an individual fit into the global competition and opportunities of the day How can I, on my own, collaborate with others globally

HOW DID THE WORLD BECOME 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

Learning 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 “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.”

Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, a multinational from India. “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...”