The World is Flat by ThomasL. FRIEDMAN

The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

Q1. Pretend a firm offers a commodity product, such as milk, oil, or electricity, how would you apply Friedman's rules to define itself?

He recounted the “flat world” as a stage, where barriers and partitions are broken down so people can more freely communicate and cooperate across boundaries.  Of course, the world is not absolutely “flat” in periods of absolutely open and unfettered access (look at how ceramic delicacies its own people), but it's a heck of a alalallotmentmentment flatter than it ever had been.

“direct #1.  When the world is flat, whatever can be finished WILL be finished.  The only inquiry is if it will be finished BY you or TO you.

If you can imagine it, don't think it won't get done.  When there is this much in the way of distributed devices of connectively, if you have a good idea, you should pursue it.  if it's in Boston, Bangalore, or Beijing, it will get done.

Rule #2:  The most significant affray is no longer the affray between one homeland and another homeland, or between one company and another company.  The most significant financial affray is between you and your own imagination.

As an unaligned proceedor, you can proceed on your imagination much quicker, more distant, deeper, lower than ever before.  If you have an concept, you can get a factory in China to mass construct it, you can get Amazon to take the instructions and do fulfillment, and you can use freelancher.com for the trading and logo.  All of these services are now products.

There is just one thing in the flat world that is not a product, and that's this (snaps his finger) — the ability to imagine, stimulate and innovate new products, new services, new ways to entertain.

Rule 3:  There are going to be two kind of nations going forward: High imagination-enabling nations and reduced imagination-enabling nations.

Countries with an learning scheme that stimulate allotments of students to do this (snap-imagine) and those that do not.

The future belongs to those countries that have it.  Indeed, if I had my way we would have a new economic indicator.  rather than of gross nationwide merchandise, we would have whole one-by-one product.  which homeland is empowering more of its one-by-ones to take advantage of this world where one-by-one can envisage and produce.

Rule 4.  It's called “liberal creative pursuits education.”  Liberal creative pursuits actually affairs more than ever in the flat world.

Math and research are irreplaceable.  This is not an argument against that, it's an contention for augmentation.  Do not forgot to take those liberal creative pursuits categories like art, publications, history, the humanities.  It is really critical sources of creatively and inspiration.

Where does this arrive from? Marc Tucker said that “from the one thing we know about creativity is that it typically happens when persons who have mastered two or more rather distinctly areas, use the structure for one to think a new and afresh ...