I recently finished reading “The World Is Flat” and found the following thoughts from Tom Friedman to be extremely interesting.<\/p>\n
* The key to thriving, as an individual, in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself an “untouchable”. “Untouchables” are people whose jobs cannot be outsourced, digitized, or automated.<\/p>\n
Couple of key categories that untouchables in a flat world will fall into: * Key Roles in a Flat World The most important ability you can develop in a flat world is the ability to “learn how to learn” – to constantly absorb, and teach yourself, new ways of doing old things or new ways of doing new things.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently finished reading “The World Is Flat” and found the following thoughts from Tom Friedman to be extremely interesting. * The key to thriving, as an individual, in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself an “untouchable”. “Untouchables” are people whose jobs cannot be outsourced, digitized, or automated. Couple of key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-coaching","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
a. People who are really “special or specialized”<\/em>.
b. People who are really “localized” and “anchored” <\/em>(jobs must be done in a specific location either because they involve some specific local knowledge or because they require face-to-face, personalized contact or interaction with a customer).<\/p>\n
1. Great Collaborators and Orchestrators – Collaborating with others or orchestrating collaboration within and between companies.
2. Great Synthesizers – Creating value by synthesizing disparate parts together.
3. Great Explainers – Seeing the complexity but explaining it with simplicity.
4. Great Leveragers – Leveraging technology, designing programs that enable others to work smarter and faster.
5. Great Adapters – Applying depth of skill to a progressively widening scope of situations and experiences, gaining new competencies, building relationships, and assuming new roles. Capable of not only constantly adapting but also of constantly learning & growing.
6. Passionate Personalizers – Giving personal, special touch and real passion to a normal task.<\/p>\n