Our grandparents came from the old country to create a better life. Take responsibility for your job situation. Bill Greer is an untouchable. In the past a client requests a finished piece of art.net or reach him at (330) 990-0788. Boeing also outsourced the electronics of this plane to a Japanese company. Boeing has Russian designers designing the wings. My father left the coal mines of Pennsylvania to find a better life here. Bill is 48 years old and he has 26 years experience as a free lance artist and graphics designer. No longer just another friggin artist, his clients now buy his ideas. They blamed competition from India and China. Accountants are next to feel the heat from off shore competition. In a recent article, Business Week discussed how Call Centers are being sent off shore, sending 10s of thousands of jobs overseas. An accountant in India will access this information over a secure link and process the financials overnight. They do not understand that with technology the world is flat and traditional boundaries cease to exist. That's how I came to live in Akron. Government is about boundaries: political, commercial and geographical. He creates new forms of value for his clients. For example, in his book the World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, he discusses the outsourcing impact on his friend Bill Greer. The best way to describe how to we should respond to outsourcing and off shoring is though this African Proverb: Every Morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up It knows that is must out run the fastest lion or it will be killed Every morning the lion wakes up It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death It does not matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, When the sun comes up You better start running Author's Resource Box threaded rod Ronald Finklestein, AKRIS, LLC, is a business coach, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer, and has published three books on business success. Finally, never stop learning.A local newspaper recently ran this headline "Ohio lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs". Our parent and grandparents took responsibility when they left the farm or migrated to a new country. Tata India has one of the world's largest and highly trained programming staffs. The new process is three steps. Outsourcing is defined as taking a specific task and having another company perform this service and then reintegrating the results back into the original company. Software gives everyone the same tools and allowed almost anyone the ability to create acceptable art work. In the technology age America is being pushed by two very motivated competitors: India and China. After years of repression they now see that they can have what Americans have enjoyed for so many years. He continues to retool his skills. He is adaptable. Hundreds of thousands of people migrated from farms to cities during the industrial revolution and retooled their skills to find work. 2. Politicians are lawyers not engineers. Being untouchable is the ongoing learning process that a person must go through to move to the next level of professional and personal development. For Greer, the old process was eight steps. He became the idea man. As Satchel Page once said "do not look back they might be gaining on you." The untouchables never look back, they are always looking for the next way to provide greater value. It happened when we moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age to the electronic age. 3. Stop being complacent and waiting for the government to do something. What are you doing to be an untouchable? We have been though this before. You can contact him at info@yourbusinesscoach. Greer pushed himself up the knowledge ladder and retooled his skill sets. He would create the idea, draw it out and email it to his clients and they would finish it. A clerk in the accountant's office can scan a company's financial data to an Internet server. Boeing can employ five engineers in Russia for the price of one engineer in the United States. The process I just describes is known as the creation of camera ready art In the new process Greer's client would requests a design, Greer would create the product using digital software and email the product back to the client. Men who left the mountains and came to Akron to find employment learned new skills as well. In the following example Boeing is building a new plane. This Japanese company out sourced certain electronic components to the same company in Russia that Boeing is outsourcing the wing design to. http: akris. In both of these cases education played a key role in this transformation. Your death my not physical but it is an emotional and intellectual death all the same. Treat your job as your business. On the farm you could get by with a third grade education and no one cared. In the 1950s, in Akron Ohio, rubber companies would rent buses and send them into the mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to bring worker to Akron to work in the Rubber factories. Dell, Citigroup, Microsoft, General Electric and others major corporations now have oversea call centers.netArticle Source: 1ArticleWorld. If you are always providing value there is no need to look back. During the industrial age you needed a high school diploma. His clients include such notable names as New York Times and McDonalds. Our parents learned new skills and found ways to compete in their generation. Microsoft and GE have one of the world's most productive research and development centers in India Companies such are Ford, GM and Mercedes have built or off-shored entire plants to China. Little did he know that working in the rubber factory was no different that working in a coal mine. What is America doing to compete? More importantly "what are you doing to do to compete" to become an untouchable? As I see it there are three things we must do: 1. The results are waiting at the accountant desk when he comes in the next morning. Greer would sketch it, color it, mount it on illustration board, cover it with tissue, package it, and have it delivered. Are you untouchable? Let me define untouchable. People who left the farms adapted, learned new skills and became untouchable in their generation. Off-shoring is taking an entire plant and moving it to another country. When you stop learning is when you die. You can not change something unless you assume responsibility for the results. Technology allows India and China to do the same thing; all without leaving home. This concept of creating ideas moved him into a whole new business. How do you fight this? Outsourcing and off-shoring are here to stay. Programs like Quark Express turned graphic design into a commodity. They do not understand technology

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