management experts John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison coined the term “the Big Shift.” The Big Shift, they argue, is that we’re moving from a long period of history in which stocks were the measure of wealth and the driver of growth—how much of every resource imaginable you could stock up on and then draw down and exploit—to a world in which the most relevant source of comparative advantage will be how rich and numerous are the flows passing through your country or community and how well trained your citizen-workers are to take advantage of them.
