The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida
from Collins Business

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Building On His Thesis, But With A Warning
  In the first portion of this book, Richard Florida recaps and defends the major ideas in his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. He addresses some of his critics and reasserts his thesis, which proposes that the ascendancy of a powerful class of creative, talented workers is making PLACES more important than companies. The Places that this new class will be attracted to display an abundance of what Florida calls the 3 T's:... more info

• Good Observation, Bad Conclusion
  The "creative class" is much to broad a description for what Mr. Florida attempts to describe as an autonomous mass. Yes, there is a global competition for skilled workers, yes, several companies are outsourcing jobs, but no, these workers are not a sort of uber-elite "creative class", they are merely a human resource easy to exploit by corporations. The author may have made a couple of good observations but in the end his theory is preposterous.

• Kinda Lightweight Social Science
  
  Florida was all the rage in the Ivory Tower a while back. I read this book when it first came out and immediately saw it for what it was; a lightweight treatise marketed to self professed intellectuals and humanities types who emphasize the 'socio' in socio-economic.
  It is here where Florida's book fell totally apart. He obviously has not had the rigorous education needed to incorporate the 'economic' into his argument. No discussion of taxes, regulations, etc. He says the smaller European... more info

• Still needs to take on the 900-pound gorilla
  "If America continues to make it harder for some of the world's most talented students and workers to come here, they'll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities--as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment."
  -- Dr. Richard Florida, The Flight of the Creative Class
  From this quote you can see immediately the sort of society Dr. Florida wants. Me, too. What's puzzling is he doesn't explicitly attach his shiny new cart... more info

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