Authors: Thomas L. Friedman, Oliver Wyman
ISBN-13: 9781427201751, ISBN-10: 1427201757
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Date Published: July 2007
Edition: Third Edition, Abridged
Occasionally blunt, often educational, but never boring, Thomas L. Friedman is among the best known and respected analysts of the Middle East. A three-time Pulitzer winner, his books and column for the New York Times take a no-nonsense, authoritative approach to complex global issues.
Book Synopsis
Tying into the new paperback and with a new preface, Thomas L. Friedman's account of the flattening of the earth is a modern classic
Table of Contents
Introduction to the 3.0 Expanded Edition ix
How the World Became Flat
While I Was Sleeping 3
The Ten Forces That Flattened the World 51
11/9/89
8/9/95
Work Flow Software
Uploading
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supply-Chaining
Insourcing
In-forming
The Steroids
The Triple Convergence 200
The Great Sorting Out 233
America and the Flat World
America and Free Trade 263
The Untouchables 278
The Right Stuff 308
The Quiet Crisis 337
This Is Not a Test 374
Developing Countries and the Flat World
The Virgin of Guadalupe 403
Companies and the Flat World
How Companies Cope 441
You and the Flat World
Globalization of the Local 477
If It's Not Happening, It's Because You're Not Doing It 489
What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? 515
Geopolitics and the Flat World
The Unflat World 533
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention 580
Conclusion: Imagination
11/9 Versus 9/11 607
Acknowledgments 637
Index 641
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