Death of a salesman. The Death of the Global Manager? Not so fast and not so sure here. I don't believe defining managers as "global" is a dead concept.
Meanwhile, Julia Hanna makes her case with: The Death of the Global Manager for HBS Working Knowledge. As always, the comments are more telling than anything. Add yours if you like.
But let's not forget one of my favorite Harvard Business articles that I pulled (dusted off) from my library shelf: The Globalization of Markets (pictured) by Theodore Levitt. Oh if Theodore were alive today ... what would he say?
Is the Huffington Post content exportable? We will soon find out. The Huffington Post (now in the hands of big company AOL) intends to take on the UK, France, and then Brazil.
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They have been funded by top-tier venture funding sources in Asia, Europe and the U.S. to complete product development in the U.K. and the USA. In addition, they desire to a run specialized, scalable production facility in Germany, construct a second, volume production facility in Moscow, Russia and build strong go-to-market teams.
It's always a challenge determining the best import or export pricing for your product. Is it based on your cost? The market? The product itself - unique or a commodity? Perhaps this article might help.
I am thrilled (honored might be a better choice of words) to make the "Top 100 Small Business Influencer 2011 Champion List!" Thank you so much. And I am delighted to be in such good company with the other 99 very cool influencers.
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Emerging markets -- China, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa -- are building networks among themselves not just for expanded trade in goods, but for:
short-term and long-term investment and the transfer of technological and managerial innovation in all directions.
There are several free trade agreements (FTAs) pending: South Korea, Panama and Colombia. But are they really necessary? A lot of folks think they are. In the United States, many states have a stake in the FTA's passage. Take a good look below.
When you ship internationally, you want your cargo to be safe and arrive timely to its destination point - not to mention transportation rates that are affordable for your customer!
Below, Capt. James J. McNamara, President of the National Cargo Bureau Inc., details how to load, stow and secure a freight container. He can be contacted here.
Thought I'd just let everyone know about how we change the site weekly to improve the site's loading times, this months changes have been making all the tiny GIF images and background images on our site a tad bit smaller to save on the smallest amount of KB's. This has taken 0.5 secs off our load time. I know it doesn't sound a lot but when the sites loading your brain likes this more than you think. We also added cache information to our site, the reason behind this is 25% of our traffic to our site is repeat. The cache saves all the static images that don't change on to your computer so our website loads in 1 second!.
Now how do we google? well pretty good our PageRank is 2 which isn't the best but if you try google Porsche Cheshire, performance cars Cheshire and prestige cars Cheshire we come up within top 3 links, we also pop up very high for anything to do with Porsche service or recently if you google Porsche oil problems or anything problem and Porsche related we normally pop up on the first page this is due to our new content.
Of course were always looking to add great content to our site, now it must be car related but if you have some idea's send an email to us and you never know we could add it to the site.
Not that there is any similarity, but many years ago I read, "Women Who Run With the Wolves," a book about wolves and women who share a psychic bond in their fierceness, grace and devotion to mate and community. This comparison referenced in the book defines the archetype of the Wild Woman, a female in touch with her primitive side and her ability to rely on gut feelings to make choices.
Now, to the point of this post. Parag Khanna, a leading geo-strategist and world traveler, has authored "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. I have not read it yet. Khanna addresses a lot of complex issues. One being: Will 21st century diplomacy be complex?
Find out here. Book available at Amazon. Question posted there:
Q: What can America do to manage such a complex new global order?
A: America’s footprint in the world is much greater than that of its government alone. American companies spread financing, technology and management know-how around the globe, American universities have set up campuses across the Middle East and Asia to educate the next generation of leaders, and American citizens and charities are the most generous in the world. So America needs to stay open and engaged in the ways that have made it the most respected leader in decades past. Where America builds relations among citizens and not just governments, such as with Europe, Japan and India, alliances are much more long-lasting and stable.
So you can decide: Run with the wolves or run the world?
Last year in SeptemberEric Whitacre invited his online fans to participate in an ambitious attempt to create the world's largest virtual choir.
Featuring 2052 performances from singers in 58 countries, the Virtual Choir 2.0 - singing Whitacre's "Sleep" - is the largest assembled online in history, and far surpasses Whitacre's original goal of 900 voices.
If your looking for value and the sporty option that can serve the family Harry like the 2011 Dodge Charger Rallye.
The 2011 Dodge Charger Rallye that we reviewed came to us in the brilliant Toxic Orange that accented the lines of this well designed offering from Dodge. I can remember my own 1969 Dodge Charger back in High School and this Charger Rallye took me right back there.
This 2011 Dodge Charger Rallye has a larger grille and restyled headlights on the front. Also some new exterior changes also includes tighter tire to fender clearance as well as LED taillights. Returning this year in SE as well as a rear-wheel and all-wheel drive R/T trims, the 2011 Dodge Charger rides on an improved suspension system. With 17-inch cast aluminum wheels standard on the SE version of the Dodge Charger. Wheel sizes up to 20 inches is available from the factory. Capless fuel filler, aluminum hood and automatic headlamps are exterior features of notice found on the 2011 Charger. Inside of the 5-passenger cabin, a new 8.4-inch touchscreen operates on the main control of audio and climate controls through the 2011 Dodge Charger's standard Uconnect Touch. A Garmin navigation system is optional on both SE and R/T models. Instead of the four engines the 2010 model offered, only half that number is presented on the 2011 Dodge Charger led by the newly-added 3.6 liter Pentastar V-6 engine. While the Pentastar V-6 delivers 292 horsepower, a 5.7 liter HEMI V-8 generating 370 horsepower. Not available for 2011 is the larger HEMI V-8 engine as the high-performance Charger SRT8 trim is taking at least this year off from the sedan.
This 2011 Dodge Charger Rallye is a real head-turner and is functional as a vehicle that you drive daily with the family or the perfect business sedan and a .
We rate it a fantastic value and an automobile that we would recommend to anyone in the market now.
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1. Let social media efforts carry the international marketing campaign. 2. Isolate social media efforts from the rest of the international marketing strategy. 3. Adopt social media marketing abroad no matter what. 4. Put resources into social media at the beginning of a campaign, then taper off those efforts.
Standard & Poor's recent decision to downgrade the U.S. on its triple-A credit rating has people wondering whether this move will affect the entire global economy.
Find out here and be sure to read the reader's comments. Always enlightening.
August 8 was C.K. Prahalad’s 70th birthday. To commemorate Prahalad’s work, strategy+business is pleased to publish an article that was in progress at the time of his death in April 2010. In it, he and his coauthor, Hrishi Bhattacharyya, explain why multinational business models are no longer relevant, and how skillful companies can integrate three strategies — customization, competencies, and arbitrage — into a better form of organization.
The problem is not globalization, but the way our current institutions are set up to respond to this new demand. The prevailing corporate operating model does not work well with the structural changes that have taken place in the global economy.
I can't say the five countries (Mexico is one) mentioned in the article below are the easiest nor friendliest places to do business but they do offer market potential if you are able to gain access.
Is the United States headed for a double-dip recession? Read what experts say here. And it's always provocative to obtain perspectives from country experts other than the United States.
As national borders become less meaningful, business schools are pushing to increase the number of international students they attract as well as the amount of international work experience their domestic students get.
Google Talk (VoIP service) is expanding its phone call service beyond the United States to more than 150 locations around the world in 38 languages. No kidding. No connection fees. Pay only for talk time.
Many small businesses are turning to Skype to cut telephony costs, but with Google offering a lower-cost alternative, businesses and consumers may soon reap the benefits of increased competition.
The process of developing a realistic export business plan and relevant activities that support your export vision is discussed in this column for Crain's Chicago Business.
According to Fortune, corporations are taking a new approach to the overseas assignment and have begun to send employees abroad to work on short-term projects as a means to test how they work, and adapt, outside their comfort zones.
Could the days of traveling overseas to glamorous places on the company's nickel for global experience be over?
