[AZLiberty]

Sounds about right.

[_Jim]

tag to watch ...

[dfwgator]

We are all dead...in the long haul.

[AreaMan]

14. National/global protection of intellectual capital-property is imperative.

I must not understand. Does this mean that, for example, American intellectual capital must be protected all around the world? Or does it mean that American intellectual capital is now "Global?"

[Revolting cat!]

in the long haul

That's a neat rhetorical trick, since "in the long haul" noone's going to remember your rosy predictions and noone's going to hold you responsible for them.

[lelio]

Big companies are not "built to last;" they almost inexorably are "built to decline."

Without big companies would there be a Tom Peters?

[Lokibob]

I read y-day that off-shoring service jobs (customer service and coding) is basically limited to 4 countries, Ireland, Canada, Great Britain, and India. Of those 4, India is limited to 3,000,000 people with sufficient english skills to be effective customer service representatives.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Now the globaloons admit it. America is selling itself out (the so called "unearned wage advantage") in the relentless pursuit of bargains which in the long haul aren't bargains at all.

[Willie Green]

6. Americans' "unearned wage advantage" (Born in the U.S.A.) could be erased ... permanently.

Looks like the author forgot a quote "worth noting/quoting":

"People vote their pocketbooks"

The idiot politician who thinks that Americans recieve an "unearned wage advantage" is doomed.

[briant]

"The new organization of society implied by the triumph of individual autonomy and the true equalization of opportunity based upon merit will lead to very great rewards for merit and great individual autonomy. This will leave individuals far more responsible for themselves that they have been accustomed to being during the industrial period. It will also reduce the unearned advantage in living standards that has been enjoyed by residents of advanced industrial societies throughout the twentieth century." (Governor, Bank of England)

It's ironic that people who support "free trade" use quotes like this. I don't think freedom is what is giving places like China a wage advantage. I imagine the later part of the quote is true in that we may all be living in the third world. Except, of course for our masters.

[greenwolf]

That sounds like the kind of logic which could get John Kerry elected president...

[LowCountryJoe]

Crap, Tom Peters kind of resembles Teddy Ruxpin Dick "miserable failure" Gephardt.

[Snuffington]

True and salient point commentators like Ralph Peters are consistently missing - at least in terms of significance:

"In the long term" may refer to 20-50 years down the road. And the intervening years are politically unsustainable under our current political system.

[sixmil]

The proper role of a healthily functioning economy is to destroy jobs and put labor to use elsewhere.

Sounds like they only got one half of the equation figured out. In a healthy economy, people are pulled into new jobs, not pushed out.