"I went into a church and I began to pray............."
Mamas and the Papas
Yes the "California Dream' " song is on my mind since the "BookExpo America" trade show is being held in Los Angeles, California this week. I am in Minnesota and unable to attend this show but hopefully will be attending as an author in the near future if my book idea gains some traction with publishers.
Interested book worms out there can see the show's details at -
I see that Thomas Friedman - author of "The World is Flat" - is a keynote speaker. Given how dynamic the world economy is I am thinking he is due for a sequel to his book. No doubt the publishers would agree so they can sell more books!!
Read on,
Todd
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Please go thro' this interview by Ted Koppel. He interviews Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winner for Economics and former Chief Economist at the World Bank).
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/opinion/25friedman-transcript.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Two books to read, which offer a counterperspective to Friedman's "The World is Flat."
The Harvard Professor, Pankaj Ghemawat's latest book, "Redefining Global Strategy," is more academically inclined. I read an article of his published in the journal, "Foreign Policy", where he argues that the world is, at best, only semi-globalized. His argument being that Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic aspects of a nation come in the way of total globalization from taking place and cites examples of the same.
The other small, but interesting book, is by Aronica and Ramdoo, "The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman's New York Times Bestseller." 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 www.mkpress.com/flat
and watch 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! www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html
There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation
www.mkpress.com/extreme
http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html
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