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

    

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

    

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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hen scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter 'Y2K to March 2004,' what will theysay was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this 'flattening' of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?

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