In a flat world, you can innovate without having to emigrate.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Innovation Mobility
I
Game Change
G
When the walls came down, and the windows went up, the rules of the game changed.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Analog vs Digital
A
You cannot remain analog in this digital world.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Future Progress
F
History moves in cycles, but the future is shaped by the steady march of innovation and progress.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Global Knowledge
G
The flattening of the world means that we are now connecting all the knowledge centers on the planet together into a single global network.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Triple Convergence
T
The triple convergence has created a playing field more level than at any time in history.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Run or Perish
R
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up… It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed… Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Societal Adaptation
S
The great challenge of this century is to absorb the ten forces that flattened the world into our societies and our minds, and then act upon them.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Global Complexity
G
Outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, supply-chaining, and informing are all part of the complex processes that make a flat world tick.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Global Talent
G
We are now in the era of ‘whatever you are good at, you should be able to take global.’
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century