Review: The World is Flat
I just completed The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21th Century by Thomas L. Friedman.
Quite a fascinating read, it reads very quickly. Friedman is great columnist, one of the ones I regularly read and in this quick read he breaks down globalism, consumerism, technology, insourcing and outsourcing very nicely. It's not an academic work and it's not journalism either but Friedman's style tends to be somewhat (at least as I read it) fair in his treatment of the issues. For example he talks about the good things and the bad things Walmart does and he doesn't come across as if he has a strong stance one way or the other, he simply presents some things and the various good and bad sides; so long as you see globalization as something that is happening rather than something we might stop or do away with. If you're a protectionist you might disagree with the whole thing..
I like the allusion, leveling the playing field in a grand scale is really flattening the world. It's definitely a worth while read if you conduct business in today's world.
Quite a fascinating read, it reads very quickly. Friedman is great columnist, one of the ones I regularly read and in this quick read he breaks down globalism, consumerism, technology, insourcing and outsourcing very nicely. It's not an academic work and it's not journalism either but Friedman's style tends to be somewhat (at least as I read it) fair in his treatment of the issues. For example he talks about the good things and the bad things Walmart does and he doesn't come across as if he has a strong stance one way or the other, he simply presents some things and the various good and bad sides; so long as you see globalization as something that is happening rather than something we might stop or do away with. If you're a protectionist you might disagree with the whole thing..
I like the allusion, leveling the playing field in a grand scale is really flattening the world. It's definitely a worth while read if you conduct business in today's world.
