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June 1, 2006
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Avoid off-shoring by being creative

None of you should be concerned about jobs getting shipped off shore. That’s because the jobs going off shore are jobs you wouldn’t have wanted anyway. The highly creative, innovative, thought-leadership jobs are staying right here in the United States.

In an interview, Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind told me we are in the "conceptual age where key abilities will not be high tech but high touch," the ability to make connections will matter most in an age where information is a commodity.

Some people have to worry about losing their job to a PhD earning $10 an hour in India: If you like to sit in a room and code without having to talk to anyone else, you will find yourself out of work. If you like to take orders and never want to have to risk being told your original idea is stupid, your job can definitely be done by someone who works when Californians are sleeping.

But take a good look at yourself. If your job is going overseas, then you probably are not being your best self at work. Because everyone is creative and everyone has a spark to share with the world. So take some time to find yours.

If you can only see yourself alone in a dark room, you are probably lonely. And if you can only see yourself taking orders, you are probably bored. You’re just not admitting it. Don’t tell me you are a genius. If you were a genius you’d find a way to be creative and save your job.


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