Module 6

                In this week’s reading the Friedman starts a new direction. No longer is the world being/ becoming flat a question, he has taught us that. Now we must learn what we need to do to plan for the future. Who are we going to have to become, what skills, and personal qualities are going to need, as both a worker and as a business. The way people work is going to change, eventually the world will need to minds that are innovative and passionate, not just a body to work for the day.  

Free trade is described as being each nation produces good, in which that particular part of the world can produce the easiest, cheapest and most productive way. Then take those goods that they created cost effectively from local supplies and trade with other nations around the world. The world will in turn grow steadier, and keep growing as a whole. The problem is that this free trade would require all nations to work together for the benefit of each other to grow, they would have to rely on each other. It would also require quite a lot of change for everyone. For example if you are working for a warehouse on an assembly line, chances are pretty good that you would need to find a new job, that job would be able to be done in another country for less the cost and closer to better resources. However the change I mentioned would not all have to take place at once. It could be a slow thing. In fact if you look around it’s already started. I do think that free trade is important, its how many business are going to reach their full potential.

            The new middler, will be the people holding the new middle class jobs of the future. These are people with good people skills, team leaders, synthesizer’s, explainers, leveragers, adapters, passionate, localizers. These are some of the things the new middle class jobs will need to be. I am also sure new things will always be coming out for people to do. The new middle class jobs, won’t be laborers anymore, it will be people who carry meaning with them. People who are sociable and know people. For example, freeman who owned a photography lab, once people could do it themselves from home his business dropped. He found himself explaining to people now how to use the technology instead of doing it himself. He became a teacher of the trade.

            CQ+PQ > IQ, CQ is curiosity quotient, which is summed up by is the person curious, do they want to learn new things, do they ask questions. PQ is passion quotient, which is are they passionate do they care, do they want to try and be the best they can. So the formula is to say that curiosity and passion are greater than IQ. This is important because even if a person has a high IQ level that does not make them flexible, sure they are smart but do they care about the work they are doing do they want to better themselves or just do the same work again and again.   People with passion and curiosity are people who are self-learning, I would say sometimes not naturally but because they care they want to be the best they can they teach themselves. They develop the skill set for the job they want and are doing.   

            We learn that the free trade is the world going into business together and how it will profit everyone. We learn what and who we need to be for the future jobs. We are given the formula as to how to be a successful person. The world is becoming flatter and flatter.