10 Forces That Flattened the World--THE World Is Flat/Thomas Friedman

Ten years ago I started a company called Commerce Capital Corporation. We make SBA Loans and Business Equipment Leases. For the last ten years the world has changed so rapidly that I knew that things were changing but not to what extent. I feel a little like Rip-Van-Winkle in that I have been so focused on lending that I haven't seen how things have changed so fast and how vast.

In the book...The World Is Flat...by Thomas Friedman outlines 10 Forces that have Flatten the World.
1) Berlin Wall
2) Netscape went public
3) Work Flow Software
4) Open -Sourcing
5) Outsourcing
6) Offshoring
7) Supply-Chaining
8) Insourcing
9) Informing
10) The Steroids--Digital, Mobile, Personal & Virtual.