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Globalization: Bridging Across Cultures or Developing a Global Culture?

Why there is, as yet, no global business culture--and whether there will ever be.READ»

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From the Young World to Your World

How will the next billion Netizens change the Web and the world? What can we learn from them? And how does their rise change the game in emerging markets? READ»

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Six Ways to Prevent Corporate Tunnel Vision

Is your company at risk of being blindsided by competitors? Here are six questions that can uncover hidden risks and opportunities. READ»

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The Time Is Ripe for Innovation Outsourcing Without Borders

Having the right approach to globalization will define successful leadership in 2010. While financial institutions toppled in 2009, new industries were born. While industry incumbents struggled to survive, new entrants thrived. It’s ...READ»

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Roadmap for the Future

Ever needed a map to explore the future? Here's my shot at one.READ»

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Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism

China is set to cut off access to rare-earth elements--and this might be a very good thing.READ»

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International Paid Surveys: Which are the best?

Paid Surveys are a great way to earn money online. Most paid survey sites are open only to members of the United States or Canada, and you can hope to win great prizes for participating in online surveys. International members have ...READ»

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The Moral Bankruptcy of Modern Economic Globalization

Globalization is thought the next step forward march in the linear dance trajectory insofar as human economic evolution. Beginning with the inception of humanity in and of itself, cave men, human tribalism, city states, nation states and finally globalization and its associated global liberal economic markets as Adam Smith envisaged. Everything is “for sale” in the 21st century from human worth to international justice.READ»

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Call center outsourcing Costa Rica.

Call center outsourcing Costa Rica.READ»

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Call center outsourcing Costa Rica.

Call center outsourcing Costa Rica.READ»

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140mph #2

I was remembering watching a series of Joseph Campbell video's I own that deal with mythos.  One of the things that intuitively struck me was the way Campbell described the flowering of the first core development of human ...READ»

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Lessons in Health Care From Giorgio Armani

Some months ago, the International Health Tribune ran an interesting story about how some of Europe's leading luxury goods companies are shifting manufacturing from Europe to Asia. In the case of Giorgio Armani, some of their ...READ»

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Is The Middle Class An Endangered Species?

The Middle Class is in serious trouble, world-wide. And this current recession has magnified how serious the problem is, even though there are differences among Western countries and third world nations.READ»

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The Six Most Fascinating Things on the Web This Week

Robot Makes Its Own Scientific Discovery Scientists at the U.K.'s Aberystwyth University gave a laboratory robot named Adam a database about yeast biology, articulated arms, and artificial intelligence, and it came back to them ...READ»

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Scenarios for the Future of Brands

Here's the last scenario. I will add a few more elements if people are interested. As I said at the start, this work is a collaboration between myself, Wayde Bull and Oliver Freeman. Personal Fortress: Personal Fortress is a world ...READ»

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Amar Bhidé's Book on Venturesome Consumption Gets It Half Right

This October, Columbia Business School Professor Amar Bhidé published a new book called The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Bhidé’s core thesis is that technologies developed ...READ»

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2008 State New Economy Index Released by ITIF and the Kauffman Foundation

Five states—Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey—are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to The 2008 State ...READ»

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Obama and Outsourcing !

A quick look at the news related to outsourcing on the net and u can sniff the silent panic that is there in the outsourcing industry across the globe.Government is issuing statements that no one needs to worry about Obama’s ...READ»

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What’s Up with All of This Leadership Development, Anyway?

I was recently interviewed by The Research Board regarding some work they are doing on talent management. (The Research Board is a membership-based IT think tank serving a select group of CIOs and their direct reports of the Global ...READ»

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The Future is a Mixed Bag

With every downside, there is a corresponding upside: Get an expert's take on how technology, connectedness, globalization and ageing will affect us in the future. READ»

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The Future of Work

Why the future of work could become child's play.READ»

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The Future of Money

Like predictions about the paperless office, forecasts about a cashless society have been around for a while. For example, AC Nielsen research says that only 10% of transactions in the US will be cash by the year 2020. Logically this ...READ»

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Clyde Prestowitz - Leaders in Reverse

Clyde Prestowitz, author of Trading Places, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, and current member of both the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board ...READ»

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A Zone of Discovery

Cecily Sommers, futurist and founder of the Push Institute, addressed PUSH attendees Monday morning to set the tone and pace for the next two days. She prodded complacency and demanded future-oriented questions for the duration of ...READ»

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China Surpasses U.S. as Leader in Sub-Sahara

That the West is losing the sub-Sahara does not come as news in Africa itself. One leader after another has been explicit on this point, from Senegal's president ("Today, it is very clear that Europe is close to losing the ...READ»