The 10 forces
According to Friedman, how many forces led to the flattening of the world?
What is 10?
What were the three major trading blocks during the Cold War?
What is North America, Western Europe, and Japan + East Asia?
What is the one message Friedman says we should be telling our kids?
What is Constantly upgrade your skills?
Which force does Friedman discuss the possibility of banning to protect US workers?
What is outsourcing?
In this chapter, Friedman examines the India-Indiana story.
BONUS: Summarize the story.
What is Chapter 4, The Great Sorting Out.
In this story an Indian company was outsourced to upgrade Indiana’s unemployment computer system, effectively taking work from people in Indiana in order to provide more work for people in India.
What is the first force? BONUS: State its significance.
What is The fall of the Berlin Wall?
BONUS The significance throughout the book is that this is when the world fully opened up to globalization and economic competition.
For the first time in history BLANK has becomes more important than BLANK in determining someone's opportunity in life.
What is talent and Geography?
What should everyone make themselves into stay successful?
What is an untouchable?
Friedman suggests that Americans should be doing all they can to promote more faster economic growth in which countries to ensure Americans can keep their high wages despite international competition?
What is India and China?
In This chapter Friedman discusses the curse of a certain resource that keeps countries from moving forward in other ventures. Name the chapter and the resource.
What is Chapter 13, "11/9 versus 9/11" and Oil?
What are the three examples of open source that impacted of flattening the world of globalization?
What is Software, Blogs, and Wikipedia?
What are the three convergences?
What is:
1. In year 2000, all of the forces converged to create a global playing field for collaborations.
2. Global companies no longer need walls or buildings, there is now a global pool of employees.
3. New opportunities are created for individuals to compete against anyone, anywhere in the world using the new, "flat" rules.?
According to Bill Gates, American's have a leg up because our BLANK system is the best.
What is University?
What is rule #4 in the chapter, "How Companies Cope?"
What is, the best companies are the best collaborators?
In this chapter, Friedman discusses untouchables. Name the chapter and the four broad untouchable categories.
What is Chapter 6 "The Untouchables" and special, specialized, anchored, really adaptable?
What is the coefficient of flatness?
What is countries without natural resources are much more likely to develop the habits of openness to new ideas, because it is the only way they can survive and advance?
What 5 elements make the pool of workers in India so special?
What is:
1. highly educated
2. will work for lower wages
3. most speak English,
4. they have strong etiquette
5. enterprising.?
In Chapter 8, Friedman states that in order for American children to succeed, "Education, whether it comes from parents or schools had to be about more than cognitive skills. It also has to include BLANK."
What is character building?
In "How Companies Cope" what company does Friedman use to kick off rule #3 "And the big shall act small."
Bonus: Why is this example used?
What is Starbucks?
Bonus Answer: Because since there are 170,000+ drink combos the consumer has becomes the barista.
In which chapter does Friedman discuss those who "live in the twilight zone between the flat and the unflat world": the "disempowered".
What is Chapter 11 "The Unflat world"?
What 2 elements make search engines such flatteners?
What is the diversity of searches and diversity of languages?
Name 3 characteristics of a Zippie.
What is: Can be male or female, studying or working. Oozes attitude, ambition and aspiration. Cool, confident and creative. Seeks challenges, loves risks and shuns fear Zippies feel no guilt about making money or spending it. They are destination driven, not destiny driven, outward looking, not inward [looking], upwardly mobile, not stuck-in-my-station-in-life?
The "quiet crisis" is most impacting which two sectors?
What is science and technology?
According to David Baltimore, president of Caltech, most of his students come from what type of school?
What is public schools?
In which chapter does Friedman discuss The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention?
BONUS: What was Friedman's first theory of conflict prevents?
Chapter 12, "The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention".
BONUS: What is The Golden Arches Theory of Prevention.