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Amazed at the Choots-pah: Thomas Friedman hosting "The Next New World" forum . . .
. . . at the ultra-low price of $495!
http://www.nytfriedmanforum.com/
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu . . . .
Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges. We will explore the complex dynamics of new-world infrastructure, especially the transformative electronic, digital and mobile environment. Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.
Bewsh 41-speak aside, it gets better . . .
How this Next New World is changing your job, your workplace, and your competition.
•Understand the various patterns of interaction used by people today, and how that impacts the way they engage with businesses, brands and each other.
•Assess the impact of an always-connected workforce, and how it will impact interaction with customers, partners and among internal teams.
•Hear methods for navigating through and taking advantage of the changing dynamics of human interaction.
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How robotics and other cutting-edge technologies can increase productivity but also disrupt your office and workforce.
•Identify the latest technological advancements, and how they are working in concert with each other to enhance innovation, productivity and prosperity.
•Hear methods for incorporating technology, while retaining the core elements of your business.
•Assess the impact of accelerated product and service lifecycles, and how that will force businesses to adapt.
How everything from climate change to fallen infrastructure is threatening global supply chains and how the rise of a new global middle class is disrupting American global dominance—while creating new markets.
•Gain an understanding of the changing nature of supply chains, and how that will impact the delivery of products and services.
•Learn how increasing consumption in developing markets will impact the price, supply of, and demand for commodities, luxury items, and the need for innovation.
•Hear projections on how America will need to manage the rapid changes occurring in the global markets to ensure prosperity over the next several decades.
•Understand the various patterns of interaction used by people today, and how that impacts the way they engage with businesses, brands and each other.
•Assess the impact of an always-connected workforce, and how it will impact interaction with customers, partners and among internal teams.
•Hear methods for navigating through and taking advantage of the changing dynamics of human interaction.
snip
How robotics and other cutting-edge technologies can increase productivity but also disrupt your office and workforce.
•Identify the latest technological advancements, and how they are working in concert with each other to enhance innovation, productivity and prosperity.
•Hear methods for incorporating technology, while retaining the core elements of your business.
•Assess the impact of accelerated product and service lifecycles, and how that will force businesses to adapt.
How everything from climate change to fallen infrastructure is threatening global supply chains and how the rise of a new global middle class is disrupting American global dominance—while creating new markets.
•Gain an understanding of the changing nature of supply chains, and how that will impact the delivery of products and services.
•Learn how increasing consumption in developing markets will impact the price, supply of, and demand for commodities, luxury items, and the need for innovation.
•Hear projections on how America will need to manage the rapid changes occurring in the global markets to ensure prosperity over the next several decades.
http://www.nytfriedmanforum.com/agenda.php
"markets", "competition", "adapt", "innovate" . . . CHRIST. This guy isn't interested in balance or reducing inequality. He never HAS been. "Competition" is a "motivational" way of telling us suckers from both shores that we're nothing but pawns in a wealth cabal's cost war. It'll be nothing but a bunch of salivating plutocrats and their fawning supporters blathering to a kept man in canned "interviews" as they strategize how to relocate even more workers to tent cities and, using an even more brutal climate of fear and "competition", gouge the wages and benefits of the ones you keep.
What galls me is that this guy sells tons of books and has fans in supposed progressives and Democrats. Just like his vile books, this will be a seminar that pays fealty to abject greed disguised as concerned corporate hypothesizing, and I'm SICK of this garbage. It's kinder and gentler Uncle Milton, but you're still getting the same shaft.
Let me tell you cash-masturbating businesspeople something . . . I really, REALLY wouldn't want to be the last wealthy people in a LESS fair, economically hopeless and depressed world.
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"Atlas Sharted" for centrists.
