Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedmanis an American journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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That is, companies and individuals can now source so much more easily whatever knowledge, production, innovation, research, or advice they need.
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When the world is flat, all these global institutions are really exposed to any kind of global or Internet campaign that affects their image or brand.
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I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
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America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.
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Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
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America needs rebooting.
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Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.
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In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
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The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.
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We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
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It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.
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Think about what they mean for the preservation of language, for preservation of text, for the ability of people to tell their stories. It's going to be phenomenal.