The Industries of the Future

Son, if you have sixty seconds to do something, you have ten seconds to figure out a better way of doing it.’ ”

Best positioned to succeed will be the countries that open up economically, politically, and culturally.

think it’s really important that people have at least two other languages: one that is traditionally classically linguistic and one that’s technical.

technical, programming, or scientific language.

people who can look around the world and see and understand the opportunity in the next wave of high-growth markets are those who will realize the greatest gains.

embrace openness will be those that compete

from an agricultural economy to a knowledge-based economy, bypassing the industrial phase altogether.

Rwanda is the only country in the world with a democratically elected parliamentary body that is majority female.

has chosen to embrace Islam but not impose misogynistic laws.

role of women in business and society was one of the most important and least-acknowledged drivers of the last stage of globalization,