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World Is Flat

By Thomas L. Friedman

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| Paperback | 9781553651758

6 Reviews

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    Friedman takes you through a journey into the world of internet,outsouring, insourcing and everything else that makes the world as it is today.

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    ― Annam_Mathews said on Jul 6, 2006 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Aaron Kocourek

    This is a must read book for all executives especially those whom are involved in outsourcing. - Aaron Kocourek

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    ― Aaron-Kocourek said on May 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Read in conjunction with Huntington

    This is a wonderful book, but Friedman confounds the distinction between modernization and Westernization. The result is a rosier picture than justified. Reading this in conjunction with Huntington's CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS provides a more sober view of the world today.

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    ― Dennis Leyden said on Jan 17, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Brilliant

    This award winning book explains clearly to the layperson with convincing examples how interconnected the world is becoming and the tremendous advantages that exist to those who adapt to the leveling playing field. It also points out the risks to those who don't.

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    ― kensington said on Jan 31, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • having been to india, tibet, china and few other places touched on in this book, i have to say Mr. Friedman's analysis of their market potential is way-off. although it makes sense if you think about globalization and outsourcing from a western, American sense (we have a stable middle class), when y ... (continue)

    having been to india, tibet, china and few other places touched on in this book, i have to say Mr. Friedman's analysis of their market potential is way-off. although it makes sense if you think about globalization and outsourcing from a western, American sense (we have a stable middle class), when you consider it from these places perspective, there is no way these current trends are making things more equal. shinny, happy stories about call centers and pleased workers aside, the billions of people in india or china will not reap the benefits. most of them, to this day, remain in abject poverty, poverty so bad, we cannot fathom it until we see it. most of outsourcing is with manufacturing, where conditions remain subhuman. the higher, educated classes getting call center and tech jobs already had it good. the outsourcing just makes it better (they no longer have to leave their country and travel to places like the U.S., which aided us, to find jobs). unfortunately, this is just propoganda thinly veiled in egalitarian hope. Mr. Friedman knows better.

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    ― Beck Natnat said on Dec 4, 2007 | Add your feedback

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