With the financial crisis of 2008 barely behind us, the wheels of globalization have slowed and, in fact, calls for protectionism are growing louder. However with the global integration of trade, capital, information and labor over the past decade, few people understand that our world is more…
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Are Marketers Ready for the End of Globalization and New Reality of Localization?
Economist Jeff Rubin, author of Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller: Oil and the end of globalization was interviewed on CNN’s “Your Money” this past weekend… and guess what? Our lives are about to change. “Our cars, our homes, our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap…
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Is the Speed of Decision Making Accelerating?
As the forces of globalization continue to connect and intertwine commercial and financial markets, and new technologies come online in the marketplace, the time between “event” and “action” is rapidly closing.
In the past, managers could take weeks or days to make important decisions, however …
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Is Friedman’s Flat World Deeply Skewed?
Many of us have read Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and now comes a new book by Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo who put air — not sure hot or cold — into Friedman’s flat world.
After reading their commentary, let me ask you this: Do you think Friedman’s vision of the globalized world is a…
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