I have just concluded the book, The World is Flat. I would encourage anyone in business to read this book. I have been a successful businessman since 1986, working with local, regional and for the past 14 plus years with an international company.
This book gives an excellent history of business, it chronicles some specfic businesses and at the end really goes into indepth on the history of the terriorist that have been in Americans minds since 9/11/2001.
I was serving on the school board during 9/11 and the Knox County School Board passed a policy that did not allow any of our students to travel and forbade any travel outside the landmass. Thomas Friedman touches on this in the book, as his daughter was not allowed to travel to New Orleans for an Orchestra competition. Friedman is correct in that a knee jerk reaction was had by all and the terriorist won again in our banning trips. That would be my regret, in that I did not convince my colleagues that we were doing the wrong thing at the time, however, as a father, I was also clinging to my own children.
You live and learn.
While traveling on business (headed to St. Louis) in May, I saw an updated and expanded version of this book in a bookstore at the Charlotte, NC airport. It is well worth the effort and time.
This book gives an excellent history of business, it chronicles some specfic businesses and at the end really goes into indepth on the history of the terriorist that have been in Americans minds since 9/11/2001.
I was serving on the school board during 9/11 and the Knox County School Board passed a policy that did not allow any of our students to travel and forbade any travel outside the landmass. Thomas Friedman touches on this in the book, as his daughter was not allowed to travel to New Orleans for an Orchestra competition. Friedman is correct in that a knee jerk reaction was had by all and the terriorist won again in our banning trips. That would be my regret, in that I did not convince my colleagues that we were doing the wrong thing at the time, however, as a father, I was also clinging to my own children.
You live and learn.
While traveling on business (headed to St. Louis) in May, I saw an updated and expanded version of this book in a bookstore at the Charlotte, NC airport. It is well worth the effort and time.
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