The Ten Forces That Flattened the World These are the ten factors describing how the world is becoming “flat” or globally interconnected‚ thereby allowing businesses all over the world to compete on a more equal playing field. 1. The New Age of Creativity (the fall of the Berlin Wall) This event “tipped the balance of power across the world toward those advocating democratic‚ consensual‚ free-market-oriented governance‚ and away from those advocating authoritarian rule with centrally planned economies
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Ron Garcia felt good about his first week as a management trainee at Mexicana Wire Winding‚ Inc. He had not yet developed any technical knowledge about the manufacturing process‚ but he had toured the entire facility‚ located in the suburbs of Mexico City‚ and had met many people in various areas of the operation. Mexicana‚ a subsidiary of Westover Wire Works‚ a Texas firm‚ is a medium-sized producer of wire windings used in making electrical transformers. Carlos Alverez‚ the production control
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Analysis of Video “The World is Flat” Key issues or Problems in the video: The title "The World is Flat" was taken from a statement by Nandan Nilekani‚ the former Infosys (an Indian IT company) CEO. It seems like if hadn’t met Nandan then he wouldn’t have even written this book. He talks about Americans and the developing world but says almost nothing about Africa‚ Europe & Australia. The World is flat applies better to people with similar kind of economic conditions. In developing world‚
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In The Ron Clark Story‚ students are considered to be the bottom of the barrel. Most of the students do not have a wonderful home life and it is reflected onto their school work. For an example‚ a young boy named Tayshawn has a very disturbing and abusing home life and is not afraid to use violence on others. Badriyah ‚even though she shows her eagerness to learn; she still manages to get bullied over her love for reading by her family and friends. Most of the teachers look at these children as
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Ron Clark Essay The Ron Clark story was a very touching story that had a lot to do with the lessons we have been learning on paradigms. The way we see the world in terms of our visual sense of sight‚ but terms of understanding or interpreting. People’s paradigms are based on their environment‚ behavior‚ attitude‚ post experiences and beliefs and also your values. What is your driving force? Who or what is your obsession? The Ron Clark story is about a teacher who is in a nice town with decent students
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January 30‚ 2008 THE WORLD IS FLAT The world we live in today is going through enormous changes in economics‚ technology‚ culture‚ politics‚ etc. The effects of the changes are not so clear‚ since it is hard to predict how each sector would affect the other and how society will be affected. However‚ analyzing past and present occurrences provides some information for experts to interpret society’s reaction in the future to different transformations. Globalization can be seen as a process in which
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Thomas Friedman "The World is Flat" Study Guide and Note Sheet Chapter One: "While You Were Sleeping" How did Friedman accidentally discover that the world is "flat"? When he was in India doing an interview What are some anecdotes that illustrate Friedman’s initial discoveries of the flat world? The software that he was using to understand the world’s economics was being produced in India‚ China‚ and Japan‚ these “third world countries” that we look down upon
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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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Anmol Sharma May 4‚ 2015 English 7-2 Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out? By: Ron Koertge When my English teacher told us that we had to analyze a poem I was excited to start. Once I started looking at all of the one hundred and one poems‚ I disliked a lot of them‚ when I first stumbled upon the title I thought that the title was way to long and the poem would be boring. When I finally read it‚ I mentally scolded myself for judging the poem by its title. The title is always
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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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