It's not a Flat World.



Thomas Friedman's latest Book titled "The World is Flat" speaks about how India and China have integrated themselves with the global economies and flattened the world via low cost services and manufacturing respectively.


Instead of calling it a flat world, perhaps we could call it a World full of Slides.

Anything that is low-quality and high-cost anywhere in the world will slide to a global location where there is high-quality and low-cost.

So, the world is not really flat.

But one where :

- If our offerings (products and services) are at low-quality and high-cost, we are at the top of the slide (and nowhere to go but down).

- If we offer high-quality, low-cost products and services, we are at the bottom of the slide.

Attracting customers from all over the world.

Perhaps, a World of Mountains and Valleys.