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Naseem Javed

Naseem Javed

<em>The writer is Chairman, Expothon Worldwide, creator of Octara-Debates www.expothon.com</em>

Stop trade-wars and start skills-wars

Published on: July 24, 2019 10:34 PM

Trade-wars are mostly failures and proof of poor quality exportability, but skills-wars create superior edge of exportability creating local grassroots prosperity. Nations should avoid blaming, screaming and declaring trade-wars on other countries and rather first look inside and declare internal skills-wars on their own working-citizenry to improve their performance and capability to stand up to global age trading challenges. In the race of exportability performance, no nation can escape internal skills-wars, compete to win with skills or just shut-up. So, what are the new challenges and what’s holding back?

Art of Incompetency:

In a hyper-accelerated world, understanding incompetency of working masses is an art; identification of this critical void is a new science, mobilization of citizenry to regain new skills is courage and bold national debates to openly face these challenges is global-age leadership. This reality is also about those hidden but well-trodden crossroads; where universities of the world failed the students, ask millions of indebted MBAs, this is where government bureaucracies failed the citizenry, ask billions of taxpayers, and this is where conflict-centric agenda stripped naked the global populace of any intelligent dialogue and this is also where divisive politics and populace thinking are finding fertile grounds. Every minute of the day, around the clock, on the main-streets of the world streaming live to billions such failed procedures and outdated processes are now the new topics.

Smart nations are awakening. The silent majority is talking, and here assisting them expediently giving them the global-age skills and lifelong learning will enable them to build their own respectable future. The other option is to simply wait for an unfathomable chaos of the restless citizenry.

During ‘Print-Society’ of early last century, when printed word was power and when only the literate had access to knowledge while any meaningful transformation took decades, today the literate and illiterate of the world combined in billions, with earth shattering communication devices in their hands are advancing and asking questions. The global mindshare is now the world’s most powerful battlefield. Therefore, today, the internal wars to tackle incompetency of citizenry are far more important issues than any other types of outside wars. Such declarations of internal wars are positive starts backed with world-class thought leadership, regimented and disciplined national agenda to transform citizenry with global-age-skills for the new world of global commerce. Any nation with skilled citizenry is far more powerful today when it’s fit-enough to stay in the global race and enjoy collaborative synthesizim around the world.

Nations should avoid blaming, screaming and declaring trade-wars on other countries and rather first look inside and declare internal skills-wars on their own working-citizenry to improve their performance and capability to stand up to global age trading challenges

The global exportability performance is more about internal skills-wars; global-age-skilled-nations will have distinct superiority of entrepreneurial performance over seek-and-destroy-soldiered-nations. Today’s work reality: Hard-work is being replaced by smart-work, smart-work is being replaced by machines. The Master of Robots will be the smart unlearners, while the Slaves of Robots will be the deniers of change. In global search for collaborative synthesizim, Expothon Worldwide is seeking alliances to downstream high quality debates and discussion with top leadership within a nation and also inviting experts in various business growth fields to join our platform already aligned with global metamorphosis.

The new leadership must demonstrate global age skills set to fit the entrepreneurial global mindset with advanced level technology management skills in order to help its citizenry cope with the future and to fix the grassroots prosperity issues, but if all ignored it will rapidly create restless citizenry. Systematically abandoned, elimination of lifelong learning to keep pace with technology and future job-securities resulted in the rejection of globalization.

Nations can transform the top small and midsize 1000-10,000 enterprises on a fast track basis to stand up to global exportability standards of quality goods and services with worldwide access. Caution; not be confused with current export promotion bureaus mandated around the world, still locked in mid-century style correspondences and bureaucracies with old websites. This is advance science laced with AI, VR and BC and freely available technologies to smart and agile enterprises across the nation.

For smart nations, a new universe of new pathways and opportunities are hidden within the deeper understanding of the following key national and global issues. Study deeply on Google

Technocalamity; how overflow of free technologies will drown all standstill enterprises?

Micro-power Nations; how will they outsmart super-power-nations on exportability?

Population-Rich; how will they take over established knowledge-rich nations?

Collaborative Synthesizim; how collaboration will defeat seek and destroy mentality?

Alpha Dreamers; how 5 billion connected dreamers will change the world?

FACT: The time to change has already passed, and the time to mobilize and revolutionize has started.

The wrter is a corporate philosopher, Chairman of Expothon Worldwide

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