| 1. Flat World Competition Internet communication combined with secure intercontinental travel – of goods, services, people – have made the world flat. Everyone with an innovative idea and a strong wifi connection can start competing. |
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| 2. The Anywhere People versus the People from Somewhere This is the new societal divide. People who are born and live in one place, and being attached to that place for a whole life. Versus the globalized ‘Anywhere People’ who will go where chances & opportunities go. |
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| 3. Roots & Wings People need to feel earth under their feet, need to feel a sense of belonging. But people also want to spread their wings and explore what the world has to offer them – and what they have to offer to the world. |
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| 4. Local versus central – at the same time We love local because we associate it with home – real home or symbolic home. We have a tendency to forget how many things have to be centrally organized in order to enable us to embrace ‘local’. |
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Click on the books to find them on Amazon.com
Key reads:
| The World is Flat. Thomas Friedman
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Breakout nations. Ruchir Sharma.
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| The Great Convergence. Kishore Mahbubani
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The Age of Ambition. Evan Osnos.
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| The Road to Somewhere. David Goodhart
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