The NYTimes columnist Thomas Friedman has a pretty rigid column formula and it goes something like this:
Check out an instance of Friedman in top form using his formula here...
Read this excerpt from his latest column a few times and think about whether it really makes sense:
But on the home front, this team has no big idea - certainly none that relates to the biggest challenge and opportunity facing us today: the flattening of the global economic playing field in a way that is allowing more people from more places to compete and collaborate with your kids and mine than ever before.