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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

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The Fortune Global 500 Isn’t All That Global

Harvard Business Review

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

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The Leadership Contagion: What Virus Are You Spreading?

Terry Starbucker

If you need more evidence to take this advice to heart, here it is – I found some fascinating research cited by Louise Altman in a blog post in 2011 : In the past decade, there has been an important finding in neuroscience that should impact on how every leader leads – emotions are contagious.

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