{"id":7557,"date":"2012-11-14T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:12:38","slug":"thomas-friedman-think-creatively-in-hyper-connected-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/thomas-friedman-think-creatively-in-hyper-connected-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman: Think creatively in hyper-connected world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>When Thomas Friedman began his career as a journalist more than twenty years ago, \u201caverage\u201d was good enough. But according to Friedman, in this age of hyper-connectivity and globalization, average doesn\u2019t mean much anymore. Instead, America\u2019s workers will need to have something \u201cextra\u201d and invent their own jobs, he told a large crowd at the Tivoli Theatre.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"7528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/reporter-and-columnist-thomas-friedman-to-speak-nov-13\/friedman\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"333,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Friedman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Thomas Friedman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-7528 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Friedman-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Friedman<\/p><\/div>\u201cAverage is officially over. If all you ever do is all you&#8217;ve ever done, you will no longer get all you ever got. You will get less,&#8221; Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman was the second speaker in the Hunter Lecture Series. He has written extensively on international affairs, including globalization, the Middle East, and climate change. He joined\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).<\/p>\n<p>The merger of globalization and information technology means employers now have cheaper, easier access to above average computer software, automation, and labor, Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the world gets this hyper-connected, the whole global curve rises. It\u2019s as if the world is a single math class at UTC and the curve has gone up. That means we all have to raise our game and find our unique value contribution. We\u2019re not going to own the future by default,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This new world means big changes for the college students and recent college graduates. Freidman advises young people to think more creatively in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I graduated from college, I got to find a job. Recent college graduates will have to invent a job. You\u2019ll have to reinvent, reengineer, and redesign that job. And to keep that job, you\u2019ll always have to demonstrate your &#8216;extra.&#8217; Your unique value contribution will justify why you should be hired, promoted or retained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman did provide some hope for college graduates, saying students who are able to adapt to the quick and many changes throughout their careers will be better in this new economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a student graduates from UTC with the ability to learn and relearn, if a student is able to apply what they know when what they know constantly changes, then they will be just fine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Freidman ended his lecture by telling the audience to think differently. He likened the new way to thrive in the hyper-connected world to adopting the attitudes of an immigrant, artisan, starter-upper, and waitress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrants are paranoid optimists. They\u2019re persistent and adaptable. We are all new immigrants in the hyper-connected world. Think like an artisan. They make every item individually by hand. The best artisans put so much &#8216;extra&#8217; into their work that they carved their initials into it. Always think like a starter-upper, like you\u2019re in beta. Your work is never done. You\u2019re constantly inventing and reinventing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And how did a waitress at Perkin\u2019s Pancake House, Friedman\u2019s favorite restaurant, think differently? When Friedman was visiting with a friend, the waitress brought them their meal and told the friend, \u201cI gave you extra fruit.\u201d Her \u201cextra\u201d earned her a 50 percent tip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t control much, but she did control the fruit\u00a0ladle. That was her &#8216;extra.&#8217; In her own little way, she was thinking entrepreneurial and using whatever tools she had,\u201d Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>Now in it\u2019s fifth year, the George T. Hunter Lecture Series is a partnership of The Benwood Foundation and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The goal is to raise awareness of some of our most important public policy issues by bringing community opinion leaders, residents, students, and scholars together to hear from and engage in dialogue with national leaders. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benwood.org\/\"><strong>www.benwood.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Thomas Friedman began his career as a journalist more than twenty years ago, \u201caverage\u201d was good enough. But according to Friedman, in this age of hyper-connectivity and globalization, average doesn\u2019t mean much anymore. 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