TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L TI - The World Is Flat: The GLobalized World in the Twenty first Century SN - 9780141034898 U1 - 658 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Management N1 - Book Summary of The World Is Flat (updated & Expanded) The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, leveling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other ER -