The World is Flat slide Thomas Friedman

1.1 Author: Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman • Born July 20, 1953 • Is an American political commentator and author • Served as a Foreign Affairs columnist for New York Times • Became famous for coverage of ArabIsraeli conflict • Three time Pulitzer Prize winner • Famous book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The Worls is Flat 1.2 The book: The world is flat First released in 2005, was later released as an updated and expanded edition in 2006, and was yet again released with additional updates in 2007 as further updated and expanded: Release 3.0. Won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2005.It is an international bestselling book

The World is FLAT

Thomas L Friedman Published: 2005

 Vũ Minh Phương

 Student ID: KT44C -090-1721

I General introduction

II The main content of the book:

III.Comment about the book

IV.Contact my self and apply it practically

I General introduction

I.1 Author: Thomas L Friedman I.2 The book: The world is flat

I.1 Author: Thomas L Friedman

Thomas L Friedman:

• Born July 20, 1953

• Is an American political commentator and

author

• Served as a Foreign Affairs columnist for

New York Times

• Became famous for coverage of

Arab-Israeli conflict

• Three time Pulitzer Prize winner

• Famous book: The Lexus and the Olive

Tree, The Worls is Flat

I.2 The book: The world is flat

• First released in 2005, was later released as an

"updated and expanded" edition in 2006, and

was yet again released with additional updates

in 2007 as "further updated and expanded:

Release 3.0"

• Won the inaugural Financial Times and

Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

Award in 2005.It is an international best-selling

book

• The world is flat: A Brief History of the

Twenty-First Century

II The main content of the book

The book has 6 parts:

II.1 How the world became flat

II.2 America and the flat world America and free trade II.3 Developing countries and the flat world

II.4 Companies and the flat world

II.5 Geopolitics and the flat world

II.6 Conclusion: Imagination

II.1 How the world became flat

 While I Was Sleeping

 The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

 The Triple Convergence

 The Great Sorting Out

While I Was Sleeping

• A visit to Infosys Technologies Ltd leaves

Friedman in wonder at the massive

conferencing system they have created that

allows people from around the globe to

congregate and collaborate in one giant room via satellite and teleconferencing technology

• As Friedman travels through Japan, China and back to America, we study various examples of the business outsourcing phenomenon and its impact, positive and negative, on the players involved

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Collapse of Berlin

Wall(11/09/1989): The event not

only symbolized the end of the

Cold war, it allowed people from

other side of the wall to join the

economic mainstream

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• World Wide Web and the Internet:

Users can now save, retrieve, send

and share intellectual content

electronically and instantly The

internet created a platform for

connectivity and the web made

information sharing possible

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Work Flow Software: The ability of

machines to talk to other machines

with no humans involved Friedman

believes these first three forces

have become a “crude foundation of

a whole new global platform for

collaboration.”

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Uploading - Provided free

access to community developed

software Computer applications

were no longer 'bought' They

could be downloaded for free off

the web

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Outsourcing: Friedman argues

that outsourcing has allowed

companies to split service and

manufacturing activities into

components, with each

component performed in most

efficient, cost-effective way

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Offshoring - Different from

outsourcing, offshoring moves an

entire operation, factory and

function to a completely different

location All things are equal

expect for labor costs, lower taxes

and subsidized energy The

combined savings creates a lower

cost product

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Supply-Chaining: Friedman

compares the modern retail

supply chain to a river, and points

to Wal-Mart as the best example

of a company using technology

to streamline item sales,

distribution, and shipping

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Insourcing - Small and mid-sized companies are able to provide services

to large supply chains without prohibitive expense, such as UPS fixing

computers for Toshiba

• In-forming: Google and other search engines are the prime example

"Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their

own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman

The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

• Wireless Connectivity -

Wireless access created a

mobile society so work was no

longer tethered to a hard-wired

connection All content could

now be digitized, shared

remotely and reshaped

The Triple Convergence

• The combination of the ten world flatteners created a new global platform This new platform allowed us to collaborate and communicate in ways in

we never have before

• This new platform would not be useful if we did not change the way we did business

• Before the flattening of the world, the global economy consisted of about 2.5 billion people The flattened world allowed another 150 million people

to be added to the global connected workforce

The Great Sorting Out

Discusses the fact that as the world “flattens,” it is not only business practices that will be affected. Other dilemmas are created within

communities and their identities, individuals’ identities, and the role of governments

II.2 America and the flat world

 America and free trade

 The Untouchables

 The Right Stuff

 The Quiet Crisis

 This Is Not a Test

America and free trade

• Friedman considers the banning of

outsourcing, an action called for by

many, to protect our country’s

workers and the effect such an

action would have on globalization

He concludes that erecting borders

and walls would be detrimental to our

goals and that Americans must

instead be prepared to compete on a

global playing field

The Right Stuff

• Stressing the importance of

self-learning and self-learning to learn,

Friedman offers valuable advice to parents unsure of their children’s

educational and professional futures

He recommends building right-brain skills, or those that cannot be

duplicated by a computer, and

explores different vehicles to higher learning, including music

The Quiet Crisis

•  An interview with Shirley Ann Jackson, 2004 President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, demonstrates that a quiet crisis is happening slowly but surely as multiple and complex forces are at work creating the perfect storm; demographic, political, social, cultural,

economic, etc., that could lead to America falling behind in innovation,

science and technology

This Is Not a Test

• Friedman stresses the importance of shoving political barriers aside in what he calls “compassionate flatism” to prepare our country for what lies ahead He questions leadership and education; who will lead us into the forefront of this new globalized economy? The necessity for lifelong

learning and benefits to allow workers to remain mobile and adaptable is very real, though it seems to be at the bottom of our to-do list

II.3 Developing countries and the flat world

The Virgin of Gualalupe:

We see the Chinese manufacture of

statuettes of The Virgin of Guadalupe and

their subsequent importation into Mexico as

an example of the problem created when one

developing country competes with another, as

China replaced Mexico as the U.S.’s number

two importer in 2003 Friedman discusses the

need for developing countries to put policies

in place to create the right environment for

their companies and entrepreneurs to

succeed in the flat world

II.4 Companies and the flat world

How Companies Cope

• Friedman opines that companies willing to change and accept change are more likely to do things than have things done to them In profiling Jill and Ken Greer, creators of Greer & Associates multimedia company, we learn

of their experience with the rise of freelancers as their competition, as well

as the fact that technology that should have simplified their operations

made it more difficult by requiring more of them

II.5 Geopolitics and the flat world

 The Unflat World

 Globalization of the Local

 The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention

The Unflat World

• Friedman shares stories of the world flattening but humbly announces that

he does indeed realize the world is not yet flat He wants to draw attention to the flattening and the ever-increasing pace at which it is occurring

Globalization of the Local

• Friedman believes that globalization serves more to enrich and preserve culture than to destroy it, as each person is given their own voice and vehicle of expression through podcasts, websites, etc

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention

• Friedman’s theory is that two countries invested in a business together by being part of the same global supply-chain are less likely to go to war, as they are now heavily invested in the success of the business venture

II.6 Conclusion: Imagination

• 11/9 Versus 9/11:

The September 11 attacks

(also referred to as 9/11) were

a series of four coordinated

terrorist attacks by the Islamic

terrorist group al-Qaeda

against the United States on

the morning of Tuesday,

September 11, 2001

11/9 Versus 9/11

• We begin by examining two significant dates in world flattening: 11/9 as an example of creative imagination and 9/11 as destructive imagination

• 11/9, with the destruction of the Berlin Wall, was the door opening to a

freer, flatter, and more democratic world, where 9/11 saw our world try to snap shut against outside threat

• This is Friedman’s call for positive creativity and giving people the tools to

do positive things with what is available through the opening of so many doors

III Comment about the book

• When reading "The Flat World", readers will realize that the world is "Flat"

"Flat" means removing the barriers of politics along with the great progress

of information technology and science and technology, helping people

closer together

• By telling interesting and lively stories, Friedman explained clearly and

very convincingly about the process of flattening the world: when the world began, how it happened, what factors flattened the world The more I read the book, I feel fascinated by extremely practical examples and extremely subtle words As I went through each page, I saw a vivid picture created from the events of the past and partly understood the causes of what I am seeing now

III Comment about the book

• Following, The author helps readers learn about the effects of the flat world

on life and society, from its role to nations as well as political and economic division, to its role to personally, give very honest and grounded advice on how you can thrive in an increasingly flat environment

• He summed up a very special thing: the 21st century is the most livable, most exciting period ever, the period for young people to express their will and intellect yourself in the world Everyone can collaborate together in

global supply chains to create greater value added He led readers to

believe in the goodness of globalization and the process of connection

IV Contact my self and apply it practically

• I realize that the world today has 2 main types of work including repetitive

work and non-routine work The repetitive work is getting narrower, there

are even robots to do these things, and non-routine things like lawyers and doctors

• The way the world works makes us need to be aware of our position once again as part of the supply chain

• Currently, Vietnam has been participating in the process of globalization If young people understand the opportunities that they have in today's world,

it will help greatly in understanding the country's development path and

contributing to that development

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