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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

Leading Blog

It is a provocative guide to global trends. With corruption, lack of a first-rate technology infrastructure, resistance to start-up businesses, and an aging population, average incomes in China will grow at lower rates than in the U.S. To solve our global issues, “countries will have to work together.” “Yet,”

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The 11 Essential Elements Needed to Achieve True Collaboration

Leading Blog

Collaborate: The Art of We is a practical guide to going beyond democratic or cooperative work to creating truly collaborative work environments as a growth strategy. Collaboration is not a new concept, but globalization and new technologies have turned it into one of the best methods of competitive advantage available.

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The Movement Of People And Ideas Is Key To Economic Growth

The Horizons Tracker

In essence, this is the process by which existing technologies and processes are combined or deployed in new ways. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann compare the best economies to a bucket of Lego bricks, with the most diverse buckets those that are able to grow and produce the most innovative solutions.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

And while these figures represent US households, the percentages are being exported due to technology driven globalization. Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. These are just two examples of global, male-dominated companies now run by women.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. He eats in the company’s cafeteria and often sits with random groups of FM Global employees.

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Life Isn’t Fair: Our Choice is How to Deal with It

The Practical Leader

If we continue history’s long trends, we’re moving toward a great renaissance of spirit, cooperation, love, redefined wealth, and care for the earth’s environment. Years from now, we’ll look at this hinge of history as an era of upheaval and renewal that inspired us to a higher and different order of prosperity.

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How Partisanship Is Destroying America’s Competitiveness

The Horizons Tracker

Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. The gift of global talent. Professor William R. “We find that a firm’s win rate in the H-1B visa lottery is strongly related to the firm’s outcomes over the following three years.