Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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2189 JUNE 12‚ 2008 WICKHAM SKINNER HEATHER BECKHAM The Treadway Tire Company: Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at the Lima Tire Plant “We have a serious problem.” The words of Brandon Bellingham‚ the plant manager at Treadway’s Lima‚ Ohio‚ Tire Plant‚ rang in Ashley Wall’s ears. She had just attended a tense meeting where she had presented the projected year-end turnover figures for the plant. Out of a total of 50 foremen at the Lima facility‚ 23 of these positions had turned over
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big issue in our modern day. What is globalization? Has globalization passed its peak? Is the world flat or spiky? There are several very vocal proponents of an argument that the world has become flat in recent years. However‚ there are some writers have the opposite opinion. This paper introduces both sides of the debate and presents the arguments for and against the idea that the world has become flat in recent years. The term “globalization” today refers to the shift in the world economy. It is
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Eng 102 ROUGH DRAFT Mr. Thomas Friedman has a theory that he calls “flat earth” he speaks in many places and too many different people about this theory. No‚ this man has not lost his mind going around the country telling people that the earth is flat and if you get too close to the edge you will fall off. Mr. Friedman is elaborating on what he means by basically that the world is an even playing field for anyone in it. He is trying to get the point across that we have the same tools as everyone
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„The Triple Convergence” I. Summary/Synopsis Thomas L.Friedman‚ The World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century. Published by Farrar‚ Straus and Giroux‚ 2007. Friedman discusses the "triple convergence." The convergence of the ten flatteners had created a whole new platform. It is a global‚ Web-enabled platform for multiple forms of collaboration. This platform enables individuals‚ groups‚ companies‚ and universities anywhere in the world to collaborate - for the purposes of innovation
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I believe that Herbert Hoover had the best plan to fix the ‘Great Depression’. Hoover believed that a person’s success could only be achieved by oneself. He also believed that individualism was what America was created for. Nevertheless‚ that’s what his plan was all about. His plan was also known as the ‘New Deal’. Throughout the ‘New Deal’ he profoundly emphasized on reducing waste‚ volunteering‚ and equal opportunity for the people. The examples of his economic policies during that time such as
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long as I have an internet access‚ I can never be too far from the other side of the globe‚ just like the call center employees Thomas Friedman talked about in his book‚ The World is Flat‚ thanks to the new technology brought to the Philippines. Philippines is not a dominant player in what Friedman calls a flat world‚ but it is fast catching up. In recent years‚ it has become the destination of choice for outsourcing due to the large pool of trainable and highly skilled English-speaking labor
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When former Coca-Cola Co. (KO ) executive E. Neville Isdell agreed last May to come out of retirement and become chief executive of the beleaguered soda giant‚ he brimmed with confidence. No Coke newcomer‚ Isdell had spent 35 years inside the vast Coke system as the Atlanta company built itself into the world’s most recognized global brand‚ retiring in 2001 after a three-year stint as head of a large European Coke bottler. "The system isn’t broken‚" Isdell told a BusinessWeek reporter at the time
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1. Give a brief overview of the situation at Treadway Tires. This Case present the Treadway tires’ management concern about the high foremen turnover at the Lima Ohio plant. This facility counts with approximately 970 unionized hourly employees which are supervised by 50 salaried‚ non-unions‚ floor level managers called line foremen. These foremen as First-line managers are responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees at the areas of production‚ maintenance‚ material control
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Fireside Tire Company‚ a manufacturer of radial tires for sport utility vehicles‚ sells its products in the automotive aftermarket and distributes them throughout the United States. Fireside has three tire production plants locates in Allentown‚ Pennsylvania; Toledo‚ Ohio; and Macomb‚ Illinois (see map). Normally‚ Fireside ships tires from its plants to distribution centers‚ but truckload-size purchases typically are transported directly from plants to customer locations. Al shipments to a region
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