Live Life With No Regrets!

The world is a small place.

I'm currently working in Kuala Lumpur with Finnish and Filipino colleagues.

I read a couple of pages of "The Creative Class". The world's talent goes to where the hubs of talent are. They are not restricted by nationalistic borders.

They go to where the money is.

I see economies of countries not really linked to the physical boundaries of their borders but to the prosperity of their cities.

Even within the USA, we see competition between cities. Boeing deciding to shift their headquarters to Chicago from Seattle for Instance.

I believe that it isn't just national policies that will be the major factor in prosperity. It will be in the development of vibrant cities. Cities that become a hub and meeting place of the creative class, the people who will be the movers and shakers of the millennium. These are the people who are the ones who created unique added value.

In a time when labour is being commoditized and the world is shrinking, it isn't just natural resources that are the advantage. It is those brains that control these resources that are the ones generating added value. Hollywood movies, computer games, software are all products that are made out of thin-air. It is the imagination and talent that fuels this new age of intellectual property.

Therefore, these people are the movable resources in the world. They are valuable resources that are not locked in like oil in the ground, or gold deep in the earth.

The valuable resources now are people. And they are mobile.

Like bees attracted to flowers, countries and cities must build and provide fertile environments to attract these people.