1. Jobs of New Middle Class
1.1. Great Collaborators and Orchestrators
1.1.1. Someone who brings people together within and between companies, especially those employing diverse workforces from around the world.Someone who brings people together within and between companies, especially those employing diverse workforces from around the world.
1.2. The Great Synthesizers
1.2.1. An abstract thinker who puts together disparate things that you would not think of as going together.
1.3. The Great Explainers
1.3.1. Managers, writers, teachers, producers, journalists, and editors who are also good at explaining complex issues simply
1.4. The Great Leveragers
1.4.1. A technician who reintegrates the new best practices of humans and innovating back into what computers do best
1.5. The Great Adapters
1.5.1. A versatile worker who is neither a specialist nor a generalist in information technology but has the ability to build relationships and assume new workplace roles
1.6. The Green People
1.6.1. Those who can find "bio-derived or bio-inspired" solutions to our looming energy and environmental problems
1.7. The Passionate Personalizers
1.7.1. A worker who, through pure passion, creativity, or entertainment ability is able to take a routine task and upgrade it into a new middle job.
1.8. Math Lovers
1.8.1. a select group of people who have many new oppurtunites opened up to them because in a flattened world where electronic transfer and digitizing commonly occurs highly complex and efficient mathematical algorithms are now in higher demand.
1.9. The Great Localizers
1.9.1. One who is able to understand the emerging global infrastructure and then adapt all the new tools it offers to local needs and demands.
2. Skills
2.1. Which Class?
2.1.1. By loving to learn or having that self-motivation and passion to learn new things and to constantly innovate your own thinking and abilities
2.2. Navigation
2.2.1. navigation is the ability to sort out information that is non-useful and inaccurate and in doing so acquiring desirable information
2.3. CQ+PQ > IQ
2.3.1. CQ and PQ curiosity quotient and passion quotient matter even more.” In the end this skill set has shown me that intelligence is not the entire gift to success but rather the amount of curiosity and passion that individual has will extend his or hers endeavors to meet all self expectations and goals in life.
2.4. Stressing Liberal Arts
2.4.1. liberal arts composes of all the other classes aside from mathematics and science courses. In this section of the chapter the idea that math and science are very important in the youth of today’s education is important but the integration of other classes such as English, art history and music are now equally as important.
2.5. Right Brain
2.5.1. If creativity depends on connecting disparate dots, then we need to be educating our young people not only in more dots, the liberal arts, but also in the ability to think horizontally to mesh together different perspectives and disciplines to produce a third thing.
2.6. Tubas and Test Tubes
2.6.1. the most important aspect of education is learning how to learn. There are classes in high school that are challenging but have no real life applications to the average person.
2.7. The Right Country
2.7.1. To create and inspire a high level of trust is the most important feature any open society can posess. Trust is in many ways America's "Secret Sauce".
3. Unflat World
3.1. Too Sick
3.1.1. Those in the Too Sick category are the people, unfortunately primarily in Africa, who are too sick and ravaged by disease to focus on anything other than surviving.
3.2. Too Disempowered
3.2.1. The Too Disempowered are those in the in between stages of Flat and Unflat that Friedman calls the "The Twilight Zone". They aren't a developing country but they also aren't leaders in the developed world.
3.3. Too Frusterated
3.3.1. Too Frustrated talks about the group of people or countries who are too frustrated or humiliated with the way the proverbial chips have fallen against their favor.
3.4. Too Many Toyotas
3.4.1. Here he is referring the amount of cars being produced daily in China.