The World Is Flat/Friedman 265-284

265 Dirty Little Secret #3 The Education Gap

280 Think about Microsoft trying to figure out how to deal with global army of people writing software for free! We are entering an era of creative destruction on steroids.

282 Transforming of an enterprise begins with a sense of crisis of urgency. No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

283 The job of government and business is not to guarantee anyone a lifetime job—those days are over. What government can and must guarantee people is the chance to make themselves more employable.

284 Lifetime employability requires replacing the fat with muscle.

284 The muscles workers need most are portable benefits and opportunities for lifelong learning