(you were) born in to, how (you) worship…what matters is effort and merit” (America’s College Promise). In saying this, Obama contradicts himself. On one hand, he believes that students need to have solid work ethics and inner-drive to succeed in a flat world, which I agree with whole-heartedly. Yet, on the other hand, he set an almost effortless 2.5 GPA requirement for the program. I foresee that, if the GPA requirement stays that low, many students will put forth minimal effort and merely skim the
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The World Is Flat Author: Thomas Friedman Publisher: www.fsgbooks.com 13579108642 Pages: 216 I. Summary The author introduces theory that the world is flat. He traveled to Japan, China, America and India that lead him to this conclusion. It starts while he is playing golf when he finds himself surrounded by advertisement of traditional American companies such as Pizza Hut, Epson, HP and Texas Instruments. He identified ten influencing factors that led to globalization and world flattening
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The World is Flatter With Some Spikes To me both authors are saying the same thing, but they are looking at it from different view points. Thomas Friedman says, “In a flat world you can innovate without having to emigrate.” While Richard Florida says, “ In terms of both sheer economic horsepower and cutting edge innovation, surprisingly few regions truly matter in today’s global economy.” I feel that both are right the world is flatter than in the past, but there are the important spikes. Friedman
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changes of American Workforce: Reason? Considering how long the humanity has been in existence, Finding Jobs is a extremely difficult concept. There are many arguments about how to find and keep a job in today’s world and ways to make it more practical. In “The Untouchables”, author Thomas L.Friedman discusses how the American fungible and non-fungible jobs are affected by the Globalization. In Hudson Institute’s article “Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century”, their analysts show their opinions
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Globalization is the key component nowadays for a company to be able to be profitable. As Thomas Friedman states in his book, The World is Flat, “For physical products, supply chains now span the world. For example, raw materials might be extracted in South America, electronic components manufactured in Asia, computers assembled in the United States, and the final products sold in Europe.” [1] Consolidation strategies further empower firms to capitalize on economies of scale and focus on lowering
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Competiveness * Discuss the gist (key message) and implications of Thomas Friedman’s video presentation The World is Flat. * Discuss the gist (key message) and implications of Colvin’s article Can American(s) Compete? * Discuss the gist (key message) and implications of Porter’s and Xu’s articles: The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness and U.S. Competitiveness and the Chinese Challenge. * In a flat world filled with strong and emerging challenges to U.S. competitiveness, discuss
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Advanced Topics in MIS Assignment #1: The World is Flat In Thomas Friedman’s lecture The World is Flat, he discusses the Globalization in 3 great eras. The first era, which he refers to as Globalization 1.0, is defined as countries globalizing between 1492 and 1820. The aspect went from large to medium on a country level. Globalization 2.0 is defined as companies globalizing between 1820 and 2000. The aspect went from medium to small on a company level. Globalization 3.0 is defined as individuals
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help the world tremendously. Globalization has also brought the whole world together in the sense that people can now integrate and engage in different activities throughout the world. Barriers that existed between communities and societies have been gradually broken by globalization. Today, people can engage in business activities throughout the world without problems of business contact because of technological innovations that have contributed to globalization. In the book The World is Flat, Thomas
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1 The process of defining relationships among data to create useful information requires ______ knowledge 2 _____ are people who create, use, and disseminate knowledge and are usually professionals in science, engineering, business, and other areas. Knowledge workers 3 Data that can be used for a variety of purposes is said to be ______. Flexible 4 In information systems, _____ is used to make changes to input or processing activities. Feedback 5 ____ consists of computer programs that
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Info Quiz1 1 The process of defining relationships among data to create useful information requires ______ knowledge 2 _____ are people who create, use, and disseminate knowledge and are usually professionals in science, engineering, business, and other areas. Knowledge workers 3 Data that can be used for a variety of purposes is said to be ______. Flexible 4 In information systems, _____ is used to make changes to input or processing activities. Feedback 5 ____ consists of computer
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