How the World Became Flat
One: While I Was Sleeping = 3
Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World = 48
Flattener #1. 11/9/89
Flattener #2. 8/9/95
Flattener #3. Work Flow Software
Flattener #4. Open-Sourcing
Flattener #5. Outsourcing
Flattener #6. Offshoring
Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining
Flattener #8. Insourcing
Flattener #9. In-forming
Flattener #10. The Steroids
Three: The Triple Convergence = 173
Four: The Great Sorting Out = 201
America and the Flat World
Five: America and Free Trade = 225
Six: The Untouchables = 237
Seven: The Quiet Crisis = 250
Eight: This Is Not a Test = 276
Developing Countries and the Flat World
Nine: The Virgin of Guadalupe = 309
Companies and the Flat World
Ten: How Companies Cope = 339
Geopolitics and the Flat World
Eleven: The Unflat World = 371
Twelve: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention = 414
Conclusion: Imagination
Thirteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11 = 441
Acknowledgments = 471
Index = 475
One: While I Was Sleeping = 3
Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World = 48
Flattener #1. 11/9/89
Flattener #2. 8/9/95
Flattener #3. Work Flow Software
Flattener #4. Open-Sourcing
Flattener #5. Outsourcing
Flattener #6. Offshoring
Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining
Flattener #8. Insourcing
Flattener #9. In-forming
Flattener #10. The Steroids
Three: The Triple Convergence = 173
Four: The Great Sorting Out = 201
America and the Flat World
Five: America and Free Trade = 225
Six: The Untouchables = 237
Seven: The Quiet Crisis = 250
Eight: This Is Not a Test = 276
Developing Countries and the Flat World
Nine: The Virgin of Guadalupe = 309
Companies and the Flat World
Ten: How Companies Cope = 339
Geopolitics and the Flat World
Eleven: The Unflat World = 371
Twelve: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention = 414
Conclusion: Imagination
Thirteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11 = 441
Acknowledgments = 471
Index = 475