World Illiteracy

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Edward E. Gordon More Better Preventing a
Workforce Meltdown
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More BetterPreventing a Global Workforce
Meltdown Agenda

• Part I 2010 Issues
• Part II. 2010 Solutions

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AgendaPart I 2010 Issues

• Demographics
• Technology
• The Unflat World ?
• Education Critical Mass
• Help Wanted Worldwide
• 5. Current Solutions
• Shopping the World

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U.S. Workforce between 2010 2025

• Baby Boomers - 79 million Americans born
  1946-64 retire
• Generation X - 40 million Americans born
  1965-77 - Less job ready than baby
  boomers
• Generation Y - 70 million Americans born
  1977-95 - Less job ready than prior
  generations

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Change in U.S. Population2000-2020
Source U.S. Census Bureau
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MO Age Range Growth 1990-2000
Source Missouri Career Center
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PISA Math Scores of 15-year-oldsSelected
Countries
Source OECD, 2006 (PISA 2003 data from 29
nations)
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• 66 of
• U.S. Students
• Grades 1-12
• Read Below Grade Level

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High School Graduation Rates U.S. Rank among 30
Industrialized Nations

• Age Groups U.S. Rank
• 55-64 1st
• 34-44 5th
• 25-34 9th

Source OECD, 2005
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MO High-School Drop Outs

• Age Group Number Percent
• Age 18-64 450,853 12.7
• Age 18-24 101,948 19.2

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Missouri High School Graduation Rates 2003-2004

• Hispanic 57.4
• Black 55.8
• White 78.0

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II. Adults

• 90 Million American Workers
• Lack
• Reading
• Writing
• Math
• Skills to do their jobs properly

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National Adult Literacy Assessments1993/2003
College Grads Compared

• Prose Proficiency
• 4-year Graduates Graduate Degrees
• 1993 2003
• 91 72
• Source U.S. Department of Education

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Percent of Adults with an Associates Degree or
Higher
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Percent of Adults with College Degrees

• Missouri 25
• U.S. Average 27

Source U.S. Census Bureau
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U.S. Jobs Shifts 2000-2020(In Millions)

• Job Categories 2000 2010 2020
• Professionals/Executives 44 52
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• Sales, Technical 42 50 60
• Tech Support/ Skilled Craft 22 29
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• Low End Service 20 25 27
• Other Low Skill Jobs 24 21 17

Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005
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Business Vitality Index

• Top 50 Metro Areas
• 41. Columbia, Missouri
• Source Moodys Economy.com, 2007

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Employment Outlook 2007-2009

• St. Louis, MO Weak
• Source Moodys Economy.com, 2007

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MO EmploymentPercent Share by Industry 2006

• Industry Share 2006
• Government 15.6
• Retail Trade 11.4
• Health Care Soc. Assistance 11.4
• Manufacturing 11.1
• Accommodation Food Services 8.4
• Construction 5.3
• Administrative Waste Services 4.9
• Finance Insurance 4.5
• Prof., Scientific Tech Services 4.5

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Missouris Top 10 Occupations

• Retail salespersons 91,590
• Cashiers 81,800
• Food prep. serving workers 67,820
• Registered nurses 55,470
• Waiters waitresses 55,110
• Laborers, freight stock movers 45,520
• Truck drivers, heavy tractor-trailer 44,090
• Janitors cleaners 41,990
• Team assemblers 38,880
• Customer service reps. 38,700

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Outsourcing
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H-1B Visa
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The 2010 Meltdown
Globalization
Technology
Demographics
Education and Career Skills
Employment High Wage/High Skill or Low/Wage/Low
Skill Economy Expands or Contracts
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Agenda2010 Solutions

• Business Culture Change
• Career Culture Change
• Mobilizing Community Culture Change
• The 2010 Challenge Beyond

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Employer Implications

• Competition for high-skilled workers
• Gen X/Gen Y differences regarding
  
• ? Pay Benefits
• ? Flexible Work Arrangements
• ? Workplace Amenities

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What Business Needs

• A Measurable Definable Process
• that is Transferable
• Return-on-Investment (ROI)

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How Innovation Happens
Information (Data, Facts)
Knowledge (Insight)
Wisdom (Ideas)
Inputs
Memorization
Comprehension
Applied Thinking
Activities
Learning
Innovation
Under- standing
Outcomes
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Practicing the Sixth DisciplineInvesting
inHuman Physical Capital

• Balancing
• Short-Term vs. Long-Term
• Profit Growth

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The Sixth Disciplines Winning Formula

• High-Tech Highly
  Increased IncreasedWorkplace
  Educated People Profit
  Workers Productivity
• Fewer complex For the amount
• machines do produced level
• more work of quality
• For the amount Lower fixed labor
• produced level costs at comparable
• of quality world productivity
• cost levels

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Human Ability Areas

• Linguistics
• Logical-Mathematical
• Spatial
• Musical
• Bodily Fine-Gross Motor
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal

Source Robert J. Sternberg, 1996
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Q. What is a NGO? A. An intermediary
agency that builds a network.

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The 2010 Challenge and Beyond
Career Culture
Education Culture
Business Culture
Education Prep. and Lifelong Learning
Career and Job Alternatives
Employment High Wage/High Skill or Low/Wage/Low
Skill
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The C (Culture) Factor

• Culture X Literacy Education X
  Marketplace GDP
• C A nations attitudes motivation on the
  importance of personal learning applying it
  throughout life.
• L Personal reading practices formal
  schooling.
• E The critical mass of a nations knowledge.
• M The socioeconomic forces driving business,
  government and non-profit activities.
• GDP Gross Domestic Product The wealth of a
  nation.

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The 2010 Solution
Business
Educators
Labor
Parents Students
Government
NGO Intermediary Agency
Liberal Arts Education Career Prep.
Incumbent Worker Lifelong Learning
Employment High Wage/High Skill Economy Expands
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