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Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Next week's Fortune magazine appears with a - how shall we describe it - slavering hymn in praise of Thomas Friedman. Let me tell you, even God doesn't get it so good:

He dazzles crowds. He brews conventional wisdom. He charms CEOs. And he drives some people crazy. Meet Tom Friedman, the oracle of the Global Century.

And it goes on from there. The best part: the little drawing of Friedman as a rock star.

I went gaga over Friedman's book, and promptly used it to find the goddessly  and (and her programming guru of a husband, Hamid). I love the idea of a Bangalorean Craig's List. There are certainly many companies in India and China which are poised to do some wonderful things to speed up production (of just about everything) and productivity (of just about everyone).

This paean makes me wonder, though, about those 400,000 displaced Gulf Coast employees. Now that so many workplaces have been decimated, will folks embrace Friedman's outsourcing exuberance? Will labor become cheaper in the US as a result of the sudden glut of prospective workers on the market? Will Friedman be able to maintain his rock-star status or will his cred, like Ashlee's, suddenly plummet? (And in that case, will we get a Beautifully Broken?)

This is going to be interesting.
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Posted by Laura Dawson , September 8, 05, 3:53 PM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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