Tom Friedman's 10 Flatteners Analysis
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Slide 1 Transcript: Friedman’s 10 Flatteners
54 seconds This is a presentation about Tom Friedman’s book, called The World is Flat. Tom Friedman is a New York Times reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes and has had four or five bestselling books out. He gets some criticism for this book because some people think he’s a cheerleader for Globalization, and those people who are against Globalization don’t particularly like that. I think, in all fairness to Tom, although he’s very enthusiastic about his book and his subject, I think he just recognizes that, like it or not, Globalization is here, and here to stay. So maybe we need to understand it and figure out what we need to do about it, whether we think it’s good, or bad. …show more content…
Horizontalize yourself: be a good collaborator, learn how to work with people, both online and off. In fact, taking an online class is a good way to get a little bit of experience in that. Third, understand that it happened, understand that there are all these people, and understand diversity. That different people from different backgrounds, different religions, different races—we all have to live together on the same planet. He says CQ + PQ > IQ, by which he means that the Curiosity Quotient plus the Passion Quotient is greater than the Intelligence Quotient. Which is to say, you don’t have to be the smartest person around, if you have curiosity and passion. If you’re trying to compete by being the smartest person around, remember that in China, for example, if you’re one in a million, there are about 1,300 of you! Because that’s the size of China. And fifth, continuing education—as a teacher at College of Alameda and UC Berkeley Extension, I would applaud that. But learn a skill, be adaptable, and re-train. Understand that life-long learning is necessary in the new, flat world.
Copyright © 2005 Patrick
Slide 1 Transcript: Friedman’s 10 Flatteners
54 seconds This is a presentation about Tom Friedman’s book, called The World is Flat. Tom Friedman is a New York Times reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes and has had four or five bestselling books out. He gets some criticism for this book because some people think he’s a cheerleader for Globalization, and those people who are against Globalization don’t particularly like that. I think, in all fairness to Tom, although he’s very enthusiastic about his book and his subject, I think he just recognizes that, like it or not, Globalization is here, and here to stay. So maybe we need to understand it and figure out what we need to do about it, whether we think it’s good, or bad. …show more content…
Horizontalize yourself: be a good collaborator, learn how to work with people, both online and off. In fact, taking an online class is a good way to get a little bit of experience in that. Third, understand that it happened, understand that there are all these people, and understand diversity. That different people from different backgrounds, different religions, different races—we all have to live together on the same planet. He says CQ + PQ > IQ, by which he means that the Curiosity Quotient plus the Passion Quotient is greater than the Intelligence Quotient. Which is to say, you don’t have to be the smartest person around, if you have curiosity and passion. If you’re trying to compete by being the smartest person around, remember that in China, for example, if you’re one in a million, there are about 1,300 of you! Because that’s the size of China. And fifth, continuing education—as a teacher at College of Alameda and UC Berkeley Extension, I would applaud that. But learn a skill, be adaptable, and re-train. Understand that life-long learning is necessary in the new, flat world.
Copyright © 2005 Patrick