It's good to be back home - back to this great country of ours, and back to lovely Southern California.

After visiting several countries in Asia and meeting both business owners and employees, I am amazed at the changes taking place in the so-called "third world" (or, as some say, the "second world")

Many will recall a recent bestseller; The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. We learned that not only do Asians manufacture many products for us, but that they are also providing many services we thought they could not do. We know all about the call centers and clever software programmers who work for half the US wage - helping to make our American companies more profitable in the Global Economy.

How many of us also know that skilled services such as accounting, tax returns and X-ray readings are also done in Asia? For the Video Gamers out there, some of your games and graphics are now being designed and developed outside our shores.

So, no longer are our Asian fellow world citizens "merely copying", or doing "unskilled" jobs, but they are already involved in highly skilled and even creative realms.

What my lengthy tour of Asia revealed was that many countries - Singapore, Taiwan, India, and Malaysia are now actively exploring CREATIVITY - with some governments actually funding "the psychology of creativity".

Labels: Creativity Seminar, Whole Mind Success