The World Is Flat/Friedman p321-325

322 Yesterday competition was next door…today’s competition is worldwide.

323 The jobs are going to go where the best-educated workforce is with the most competitive infrastructure and environment for creativity and supportive government. It is inevitable.

325 The more you have a culture that naturally globalizes – 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.

325 Openness is critical.

325 in this talent-based and performance-based world rather than the background-based world.