The World is Flat The Virgin of Guadalupe. Introspection A country, its people and leaders alike,...

The World is FlatThe World is Flat

The Virgin of Guadalupe

IntrospectionIntrospectionA country, its people and leaders alike, has to be

honest with itself and look clearly at exactly where it stands in relation to other countries and in relation to the ten flatteners.

Thomas L. Friedman, pg 312

•Reform Wholesale •Reform Retail

Reform WholesaleReform Wholesale

A country, its people and leaders alike, who are pushed into more export-oriented, free-market strategies from the top down without ever really asking the people.

Thomas L. Friedman, pg 314 •China

•Russia•Mexico•Brazil•India

Reform WholesaleReform Wholesale

In the flat world of education are American leaders pushing toward more import/export-oriented strategies from the top down without ever really asking the people, i.e. teachers, parents and students?

Reform RetailReform Retail

A country, its people and leaders alike, who enable the greatest number of people to have the best legal and institutional framework within which to innovate, start companies, and become attractive partners for those who want to collaborate with them from elsewhere in the world.



“You know where you rank very quickly in a flat world…You are now competing with everyone else…and if you don’t measure up, someone will replace you—and it will not be the guy across the street.”

Louis de la Calle, pg 322


In the flat world of education have American public schools realized that they are now competing with everyone else, and if so, how will we avoid being replaced by someone else?

Culture Matters: GlocalizationCulture Matters: Glocalization

As the world goes flat, and more and more of the tools of collaboration get distributed and commoditized, the gap between cultures that have the will, the way, and the focus to quickly adopt these new tools and apply them and those that do not will matter more.


Collaborate


The key factor is actually a country’s cultural endowments, particularly the degree to which it has internalized the values of hard work, thrift, honesty, patience, and tenacity, as well as the degree to which it is open to change, new technology, and equality for women.


Internalize


The more you have a culture that naturally glocalizes—that is, the more your culture easily absorbs foreign ideas and best practices and melds those with its own traditions—the greater advantage you will have in a flat world.


Adapt


“Cultures that are open and willing to change have a huge advantage in this world.”

Jerry Rao, MphasiS CEO, pg. 325

• Collaborate• Internalize• Adapt

The Intangible ThingsThe Intangible Things

1. A society’s ability and willingness to pull together and sacrifice for the sake of economic development

2. The presence in a society of leaders with the vision to see what needs to be done in terms of development and the willingness to use power to push for change rather than to enrich themselves and preserve the status quo.



“China has a tradition of meritocracy [or ‘stateness’]—a tradition that is also carried on in Korea and Japan…where (public servants) are expected to look to the long-term interests of the state”

Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man, pg. 332


These cultures, and their public servants are rewarded by their systems for being meritorious. How then do we transform our American system into one of meritocracy?


Another of these intangible things is how much your culture prizes education.



“A lack of self-confidence leads a country to keep chewing on the past. A lack of self-confidence (in Mexico) means that everyone in the country thinks the U.S. is going to take Mexico to the cleaners.”

San Luis Rubio, president of Mexico’s Center of Research for Development, pg. 336

ConclusionConclusion

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Will Rogers, pg. 336

The World is FlatThe World is Flat

Companies and the Flat WorldHow Companies Cope

Internalize

Collaborate

Adapt

Rule #1Rule #1

When the world goes flat—and you are feeling flattened—reach for a shovel and dig inside yourself. Don’t try to build walls.

Friedman, 340

Internalize

Rule #2Rule #2

And the small shall act big…One way small companies flourish in the flat work is by learning to act really big. And the key to being small and acting big is being quick to take advantage of all the new tools for collaboration to reach farther, faster, wider, and deeper.

Friedman, pg. 345

Collaborate

Rule #3Rule #3

And the big shall act small…One way big companies flourish in the flat work is by learning to act really small by enabling their customers to act really big.

Friedman, pg 350

Collaborate

Rule #4Rule #4

The best companies are the best collaborators. In the flat world, more and more business will be done through collaborations within and between companies, for a very simple reason: The next layers of value creation—whether in technology, marketing, biomedicine, or manufacturing—are becoming so complex that no single firm or department is going to be able to master them alone.

Friedman, pg 352Collaborate

Rule #5Rule #5

In a flat world, the best companies stay healthy by getting regular chest X-rays and then selling the results to their clients.

Friedman, pg 356

Collaborate

Rule #6Rule #6

The best companies outsource to win, not to shrink. They outsource to innovate faster and more cheaply in order to grow larger, gain market share, and hire more and different specialists—not to save money by firing more people.

Friedman, pg 360

Collaborate

Rule #7Rule #7

Outsourcing isn’t just for Benedict Arnolds. It’s also for idealists.

Friedman, pg 363

Adapt

ConclusionConclusion

In a flat world the only way to keep from being flattened is to:

•Internalize•Collaborate•Adapt

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