{"id":56,"date":"2004-02-24T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2004-02-24T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T16:58:39","slug":"tom_peters_on_outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Tom Peters on Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Peters posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/toms_world\/observations.asp\">16 points on outsourcing\/offshoring<\/a>.  Points 6 and 7 are interesting.<br \/>\n6. Americans&#8217; &#8220;unearned wage advantage&#8221; could be erased permanently. (&#8220;There is no job which is America&#8217;s God-given right anymore.&#8221; &#8212; Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard)<br \/>\n7. The wholesale, upscale entry of 2.5 billion people (China, India) into the global economy at an accelerating rate is almost unfathomable.<br \/>\nHis conclusion:  we need to train many, many more creative, risk-taking entrepreneurs.  That will require a massive shift in how we educate our youth.  The only reliable indicator of whether you will be an entrepreneur:  you are the son or daughter of an entrepreneur.  If that skillset can&#8217;t be transferred more generally, most people will be left behind.<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.mindplex.org\/2004\/02\/24.html\">John Robb<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lived in the west, and there&#8217;s no question, that residents in Wisconsin and the Midwest in general need to start to take some business risks, and grow more entrepreneurs (It is truly genetic, I believe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Peters posts 16 points on outsourcing\/offshoring. Points 6 and 7 are interesting. 6. Americans&#8217; &#8220;unearned wage advantage&#8221; could be erased permanently. (&#8220;There is no job which is America&#8217;s God-given right anymore.&#8221; &#8212; Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard) 7. The wholesale, upscale entry of 2.5 billion people (China, India) into the global economy at an accelerating rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}