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The World is Flat for Free!
July 28, 2008, 4:14 am
Filed under: Outsourcing in the News

Here’s a great promotion for those of you interested in learning more about outsourcing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is offering a free audio edition of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. If you haven’t read it already, Friedman begins by taking readers into Infosys, the Indian outsourcing juggernaut, and then traces the history and reasons behind the global outsourcing movement.

The promotion is available through August 4th. You can sign up for the free audio book by following this link: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/giveaway.


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It would be a good time, I think, to read a small, but interesting book, by Aronica and Ramdoo, “The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman’s New York Times Bestseller,” which offers a good counterperspective to Friedman’s theory.

It is a small book compared to the 600 page tome by Friedman, and aimed at the common man and students alike. As popular as the book may be, some reviewers assert that by what it leaves out, Friedman’s book is dangerous. The authors point to the fact that there isn’t a single table or data footnote in Friedman’s entire book.

“Globalization is the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution,” says Aronica.

You may want to see http://www.mkpress.com/flat
and watch http://www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html
for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman’s “The World is Flat”.

Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! http://www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html

There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation
http://www.mkpress.com/extreme
http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html

Comment by concerned citizen

Good point. Thanks for the reading recommendations. We’ll definitely check these out!

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