DescriptionAs the relentless pressure of globalization continues to build, what can you do to assure that your organization remains competitive? Barry Sullivan sets the context for what "going global" means and how that differs for products and services. He contends that a shared corporate view of the future supported by keen knowledge of foreign marketplaces offers the best foundation for effective global action. The discussion includes how to create such a shared view and how EDS, his own firm, leverages its resources for global success.
DescriptionThe term "globalization" usually has a positive connotation, but activist and author Kevin Danaher illustrates the downside of the move to global business. Starting with Columbus and the subsequent brutal, arguably genocidal, conquest of the Americas, Danaher moves through history to the present, where women making shoes for Nike in Indonesia were fired for asking for $2.20 per day while CEO Philip Knight is worth $5.2 billion. Globalization, concludes Danaher, is a reversion to colonialism, more insidious because it is much more subtle. He argues that the regime of wealth should be reined in, not spread further.
DescriptionAward-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of…
DescriptionGlobalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system, argues Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, in this important program. Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and, to some degree, a global village. You cannot understand the morning news or know where to invest your money or think about where the world is going, Friedman explains, unless you understand this new system which is influencing the domestic policies and international relations of virtually every country in the world today. And once you do understand the world as Friedman describes it, you'll never look at it quite the same way again.
DescriptionOne mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal, the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times, reviewing The World is Flat in 2005. With his inim…
DescriptionOne mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal, the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times, reviewing The World is Flat in 2005. With his inimi…
