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    field, how the world has gotten to be little territory and it lets us know , as an aftereffect of this how playing field has ended up level. As indicated by Friedman, the greater part of the people need to adjust these change, else they will linger behind different social orders. From my point of view, the world is not actually flat as friedman think. Since, the world's financial equalization has changed dissimilarly everyday, the business sector has diverse level as a playing field as far as trade

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    Globalization in Our Hyperconnected, Knowledge-Intensive Economy,” written by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, takes a present day look at a 2005 book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century,” written by Tom Friedman. The two delve deeply into the burgeoning topic of globalization and the innovative, adaptive strategies necessary to keep up with the changing landscape of modern business. Both writers credit the fast pace, globalization path we are on to technological

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    Florida’s article “The World is Spiky: Globalization Has Changed the Economic Playing Field, But Hasn’t Leveled It,” is a response to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s claim that globalization has caused the earth to become “flat.” Friedman argues that technology has made it possible to “innovate without having to emigrate” (Friedman, 590). Richard Florida argues that no matter how you measure it, economically, the world is far from flat- instead it consists of a select few tall peaks surrounded

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    A flat world refers to the global economic playing field becoming leveled and comparative advantage decreasing. This means everyone in the world has a fair chance of succeeding economically. A flat world is a direct result of increasing globalization. Globalization is in part, due to higher demand for low cost labor, enhanced trading, and advanced technology. The cause of the flat world is mainly due to the extreme change in technology over the past 30 years. In the past 30 years, technology has

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    Is the World Actually Spinning Out Of Control? Fareed Zakaria, a CNN journalist, illustrates in his article “Is the World Going Nuts?” that every country on Earth is spiraling out of control, and that these countries are lacking a strong government, economical balance, and way too many of these countries are starting unnecessary chaos and violence to make their peace in the 21st Century. He states in his article that there is an unraveling taking place in every part of the world. Furthermore, Fareed

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    Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, discusses ten forces that flattened the world. Each force described has many points and reasons why, according to the author, these forces have lead to global flattening. I personally feel that the development of NetScape and software that standardize workflow were two of the big global flatteners. Prior to watching Commanding Heights, I would have choose in-forming as a third important flattener, after watching the first episode I feel that the fall of the Berlin

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    World Is Flat

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    In the video/summary of “The world is flat” by Friedman,. he was supporting globalization in the 21st century and he ignored the negative side of it. In his case, the term “World is flat” refers to the "leveling of the playing field" between the economic dynamics of the West and the rising economic powers of India and China. Friedman's idea is that because of huge improvements in technological advances, the society is becoming more and more exceptional. He didn’t to take into consideration the realities

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    Chapter Eight of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat explains six “dirty secrets” when it comes to America’s standing as a competitive nation, six truths that reveal that America will not maintain its relative wealth if the world continues to flatten. The first of these “secrets” is what Friedman calls “the numbers gap”, referring to the declining number of Americans who are training to become scientists and engineers compared to citizens of other nations. Friedman posits that scientists and

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    Lukas Forsling Jason Glover International Business 19 February 2018 The World is Flat Paper Part 1 Summary of Chapters 1-4: Chapter one, starts off with Friedman visiting many different countries. Friedman starts to notice that he is seeing American traditions in these countries. For example, he noticed people talking in English and also he was see many American brands, even though, he was across an ocean he was seeing American aspects. This started to open Friedman’s eyes about how there is not

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    Flattened World Summary

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    few minuets of this book/video. I actually own and have read this book previously for another business class. While I liked it, it was not as clear as watching the author talk about his own words. This made me want to read it again. Most of Thomas Friedman’s speech contained certain points I found very valid to year 2016, and to the business world we are in now. When having the concept explained, I think the “Flattened World” definition is correct. His work is very well though through and

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