Chapter 6 Summary
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The Untouchables
Chapter 6
By Reem Zubaidi
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What to say?
What do we tell our kids as competition for jobs stiffens, how do we prepare our kids?
Make yourself ‘untouchable’.
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‘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.
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Job Security
People who have job security in the flat world include:
Synthesizers
Explainers
Leveragers
Versatilists
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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.
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Leveragers
These kinds of jobs use computers. They ‘combine the best of what computer can do with the best of what humans can do’.
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Synthersizers
These are the workers who put things together. Even things that you would think don’t go together.
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Explainers
These are the workers who can understand things that are very complicated ad explain them simply, in a way people can understand them.
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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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