tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16296721.post3856984703039426390..comments2024-03-14T23:47:52.732+11:00Comments on The Global Educator: Mumbai: Juxtaposition of the Flat and Unflat WorldJulie Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05043807289251144925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16296721.post-7371289848707711722008-04-01T12:15:00.000+11:002008-04-01T12:15:00.000+11:00Your blog on Mumbai was very informational to me. ...Your blog on Mumbai was very informational to me. I am embarrassed to say this but, I am like many Americans in the fact that I do not find myself thinking on a global scale. I really have no idea what it would be like to live in such poverty stricken, disease ridden place. I also cannot imagine a place where large amounts of people will never know the pleasure of picking up a good book and getting lost in it or being able to read text useful in everyday life. I think that quality of life should be shared around the world. I realize that this may never happen but it okay to hope. I believe that the future will bring solutions to some of the world’s problems but I do not see the population growth slowing anytime soon so this dream may be fighting a losing battle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16296721.post-42097972142621639652008-03-15T01:09:00.000+11:002008-03-15T01:09:00.000+11:00I heard Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winner in Economics...I heard Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winner in Economics and also was the Chief Economist at the World Bank)while in India, speaking on many TV channels and to the news media as well, how the so-called globalization benefits have by-passed 3/4 of the Indian population, which is close to 600 million poeple!! So, though Friedman loves to paint a rosy picture of globalization in India and China, the majority of their population have been left out of the "progress" and "develpoment," fold of gobalization. But ofcourse, Joseph Stiglitz doesnt find a mention in Friedman's Flat World book!<BR/><BR/>Two books to read, which offer a counterperspective to Friedman's "The World is Flat." <BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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. Aronica and Ramdoo conclude by listing over twenty action items that point the way forward, and they provide a comprehensive, yet concise, framework for understanding the critical issues of globalization.<BR/><BR/>You may want to see www.mkpress.com/flat<BR/>and watch www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html<BR/>for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman's<BR/>"The World is Flat".<BR/><BR/>Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html<BR/><BR/>There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation<BR/>www.mkpress.com/extreme<BR/>http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16296721.post-57983187268180469702008-03-10T00:22:00.000+11:002008-03-10T00:22:00.000+11:00The world is flat. Flattening also brings about o...The world is flat. Flattening also brings about other moral considerations. For example if multi-national corporations now have free reign to seek the highest priced markets for good delivery and to find the cheapest production costs to whom do they owe their allegiance? stock holders? nations of origin? employees? Where do they pay taxes? How do they help put people over profits? Or do they? <BR/><BR/>Pope Benedict's coming encyclical is on the topic of globalization. It should be interesting to see the religious leader of 1/5 of the world's population weigh in on the discussion. The Catholic Church if anything is multi-national.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com