Pandemic recovery demands economic intellectualism to embrace futurism as global shifts from ‘knowledge-rich-nations’ to ‘population-rich-nations’ changing economic behavior across the world. How will all this unfold and preparations needed for positive results?
Population Rich Nations: Decades ago, large population in any country was considered an economic curse; sheer burden of visible poverty, scenes of survival and struggle of feeding millions of hungry mouths provided the blatant proof. Today considered a blessing; when citizens armed with mobile online transactional centers are humming and trading with billions of devices now new proofs of economic vibrancy for such overly populated nations.
When already digitally shrunk an accessible world in pockets, the population clusters, creating value and productivity hope with a brighter economic and balanced future. Unlimited, rains of free technologies creating pools of untapped entrepreneurial powers, today, population-rich nations are rapidly gaining smart-power to lead this century.
Knowledge Rich Nations: Over centuries, the supremacy image of knowledge housed in the West, primarily the developed economies now harshly tested as such outdated wealth of knowledge as if water gushing down from broken dams flooding faraway lands across the world. Today, the quality of new global-age knowledge available in remote tribes barely clad natives in rainforests to extremely isolated millions of villages around the world are enough to change the regional and global economic behavior.
Knowledge-rich nations must rapidly re-learn how to compete and survive against highly agile and low-cost brilliance creating shine within some 100 emerging population-rich nations. The monopoly of knowledge has been shattered. Now the time of National Mobilization has arrived to stand up to tidal waves of competitive skills. The Private Sectors of knowledge-rich nations critically need upskilling to forget their past assurances and relearn the future shortcomings to advance with new and better thinking. Collaborative global economic activity is a fine art and understanding global diversity is a new science. Futurism calls knowledge-rich nations for massive upskilling to survive and take notice of such tsunamis. When was the last time such topics debated on the national stage?
Referenced from “15 Monster Trends– by Naseem Javed” Published Dec 2014
The survival of the fittest is the master collaborator: The panicky mentality of always ‘to seek and to destroy’ as a national strategy to economical survival and compete in the global arena has brought us in dust and now Economic Exorcism becomes a possible option. Going forward, open some bold debates and global cooperation across dozens of nations, as this is where the future prosperity is hidden. The current upside down pandemic recovery world offers the best and opportune time to recreate new vision and start collaborative processes on a fast track.
Empty Minds Wanted: To fill up fresh water you need empty buckets but not overly filled garbage cans.To fill brand new innovative ideas and to apply critical thinking you must prove vast empty spaces in your mind so the cathedrals of knowledge will rise to allow new wisdom fly freely to new heights. When capabilities to face the truth becomes a prerequisite then applying critical thinking and complex problem solving becomes a fine art. Extraordinary mental spaces needed and mental stamina required.
The Upcoming Tsunamis; the new opportunities
Entrepreneurial March: Across the world mostly in Asia, some Billion new entrepreneurs are on the march. In perspective, some 100,000 entrepreneurs secured the supremacy of America for over a century. Ministries of Trade and Economic Development Bodies of the world and Immigration Control Agencies need special skills and blueprints on how to create large-scale special Visa programs to attract and allow such forces to energize their own economies. Prerequisites are finding out on why Western education and government programs failed to create new armies of entrepreneurs. Why such ideas considered, a forbidden path, controlled by a trail of silence?
Why not create a 10-year tax-free plan for all SME under USD$10 Million in turnover. Create and attract new armies of entrepreneurs. They become the fastest machines for new job creation. Eliminate all fees and unnecessary paperwork, make telecommunication and exportability costs subsidized, but let them grow, even charge them all this in taxes but much later… current knowledge base demonstrated by National Ministries of such departments critically missing special skills and deployment blueprints.
SME Expansion: The pandemic recovery will witness shut down of 50% business for various reasons, but also a 100% rise in new small medium ventures based on new business and remote models as the majority of nations will lose sectors of economy and establishments while job scarcity will move working citizens towards self-employment and entrepreneurial activities.
Remote Smartness: The business world has suddenly acquired brand new respect of receiving high quality ‘smartness’ delivered via remote working channels. As economically viable working models, the globally framed smartness on the go via remote channels is a new pandemic phenomenon helping businesses to achieve superb productivity.
Talent is not local but across the nation, continent and the world. Sleeping giants will emerge. No longer confined to their local mandates, remote smartness will crisscross the world between coffee and lunch-breaks. Leadership must acquire special understanding of such working models. With seasoned layers of upskilling, such a system will shine.
Free Fast Track Commercialization: Entrepreneurialism is uniquely about speedy execution, delivery and commercialization, now with millions of options and unlimited markets, nation-by nation a new thinking emerging, new blood flowing in commercial veins to make costs insignificant when applied to returns. This is global-age deployment. Making sluggish and super expensive commercialization of innovation a hard process now agile and floating in almost free accessibility.
The Summary: Forbidden are the debates and discussions on such topics amongst nations, sector-by-sector or association by association, the trade groups caught in digital or mental-divides and missing out tempo. Fears of facing truth, admitting missing the boats or unable to demonstrate skills on digitization a freeze of action support their silence. There are hot spots; there are great open-minded teams. Nevertheless, new leaderships aggressively seeking answers are opening new passages during pandemic recovery. The majority of economies across the world are already on the precipice, the economic recovery is a long path and critically in need of dramatic actions and revolutionary executions, so what are the missing links and who is ready start some action? Time to layout some blueprints.
The rest is easy.
