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What Kind Of A Society Are We Going To Have If It Consists Of Highly Paid People Doing High-value-added Work - And Masses Of Unemployed?

You Have To Understand What It Is That You Are Better At Than Anybody Else And Mercilessly Focus Your Efforts On It.

Long Distances Used To Be A Moat That Both Insulated And Isolated People From Workers On The Other Side Of The World. But Every Day, Technology Narrows That Moat Inch By Inch. Every Person In The World Is On The Verge Of Becoming Both A Coworker And A Competitor To Every One Of Us ... Technological Change Is Going To Reach Out And Sooner Or Later Change Something Fundamental In Your Business World.

There's A Tendency At The Senior And Middle-manager Level To Be Too Big-picturish And Too Superficial. There Is A Phrase, "the Devil Is In The Details." One Can Formulate Brilliant Global Strategies Whose Executability Is Zero. It's Only Through Familiarity With Details - The Capability Of The Individuals Who Have To Execute, The Marketplace, The Timing - That A Good Strategy Emerges. I Like To Work From Details To Big Pictures.

If The World Operates As One Big Market, Every Employee Will Compete With Every Person Anywhere In The World Who Is Capable Of Doing The Same Job. There Are Lots Of Them And Many Of Them Are Hungry