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Pros
Read it when your kids are born and then read it with them around eighth grade. This book should be made standard lecture to every student. Read it all and read it carefully.
Learn to work collaboratively. Take ownership of your work. Learn challenging new material. Providing a basic skill template and approach to developing one self in the long term.
For a rational person such as myself, the material he covers really clicks. Charles hugh smith manages to explain the forces of our economy while drawing logic. Charles provides many examples quotes insights from his own experiences including his crit... Read More
In first part autor writes about changes in job and bussines enviroment in last years. This is self-evidently true of paper boys, tax preparers and auto repairmen.
Cons
It really is mostly the author's (very biased) opinions about the evils of corporate america and an increasingly irrelevant educational system. Also--very dense type, hard to read, and no index or footnotes.
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Quality
He has only two years left to complete his 20 year service with the army and is researching what he will do when he retires
Therefore rather than preach to the common man in the hopes that they will come to their senses he now offers advice to individ... Read More
Competitiveness
Charles provides many examples quotes insights from his own experiences including his criticism of the higher ed factory model
Answers the question of how to thrive in a changing world
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- This product had a total of 74 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 14 2022.
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I work in healthcare and it is a bloated wasteful system
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For example smith dares suggest that for many people a degree has less value than the marketing departments of major universities would have you believe and that our current model of higher education is antiquated with poor outcomes arising out of what he calls the cartelization process
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Excellent stuff makes you realize what a dinosaur donald trump is
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Excelent book about the state of todays economy
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This book is not about getting a government job
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This book has some great points about the education process and interchangeable jobs and how to survive in this very uncertain game with changing rules
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I suspect this book was written orally using dragon software
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Explaining the unsustainability of the existing college and corporate paradigm
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