Thomas Friedman Quotes
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Professor Levitt coined the word “globalization” in this 1983 article.
His view was that the major driver of globalization is communications and information which travel at light speed.
Knute the Great, King of Norway and England, was said to have attempted to control the tides. This was given by an early historian, Henry of Huntington, 1084-1155, as an example of the fallibility of kings as opposed to God.
He was the youngest person to have ever been awarded a Professorship at the Harvard Business School.
He was one of the early observers of this phenomenon. See the related quotes for others who were early observers of the coming changes.
Thomas Loren Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
