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At growing-global.com, we are constantly scanning the horizon for informative thinking related to successful multinational growth and global understanding. Here are some that we find particularly interesting.
10 Ways to Develop A High Global Business IQ
Are you ready to go global?
Here's how it might happen: You receive an e-mail from a contact in Germany asking to buy 20,000 of your widgets. Good grief! Now what? You're not set up to handle online transactions - you've just finished your website. What do you do next?
Business Ethics in a Global Marketplace
Globalization creates a unique situation when it comes to ethics and values. when creating value systems in a global business environment, we need to be culturally sensitive.
Cross Border Negotiations
Global communications and corporations are advancing but cultural differences remain unchanged, making successful negotiation and trust difficult. This article looks at some cultural differences that can lead to misunderstandings.
Cross Culture in Business and Everyday Life
With so much globalisation, many people find themselves working in a cross-culture environment. How does one cope with the unexpected differences in attitude and working practices?
How Successful Multinationals Communicate Interculturally
How do you tackle the daunting challenge of intercultural communications?
Keying in to Cultural Codes : How to Do Business Overseas
The world gets smaller and smaller everyday. Or does it? As advances in communications technology continue to shrink time and distance between countries, we have good reason to believe that the "global village" predicted several decades ago has finally arrived.
Making Cultural Differences Work in Your Business
So just how do you ensure that cultural diferences do not adversely effect your business?
Minding Your Global Manners
Find out more about global etiquette
Worldwide Vision in the Workplace
As the global economy becomes more integrated and companies expand their operation abroad, so they increasingly encompass a wide range of cultures. Kevan Hall discusses the importance of building cultural awareness in order to create harmony, rather than discord, out of this diversity.
5 Reasons Women are Naturals at Going Global
Women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men and becoming a major force both in the traditional and the new global e-business marketplace.
Here are five reasons why women are naturals at going global, and how absolutely indispensable they are in international business
Creating and Managing International Alliance Relationships
Find out how to form and manage effective alliance relationships, regardless of your company size.
Earth as We Knew It
Global living environment has been and is being severely degraded by the imitation, adoption, and expansion of less than environmentally responsible practices. These practices are expanding very fast now as globalization and deregulation drive them headlong into the mainstream of the world's economies.
Going Global
There are a plethora of issues facing companies who decide to take the plunge and expand their businesses across international borders, not simply for those exporting goods or supplying services to overseas customers, but for those setting up a business in the overseas jurisdiction. Find your way through the minefield by reading this article.
Going Global in Times of Uncertainty
Is now the best time for your business to diversify into international markets?
Going Global Requires Company-Wide Commitment
Success in going global is directly related to a company-wide commitment. That company-wide commitment involves you alone if you are a sole proprietor, or in the case of a large corporation, the executive committee, finance, operations, marketing and sales, logistics, research, technology, and culture.
Hope for the Self-Actualized Worker : The Conscious Organization
The importance of self actualization and the conscious organization.
Innovation: Core Competency for the 21st Century
Despite the growing recognition that innovation is the only sustainable source of growth, competitive advantage, and new wealth, an Arthur D. Little survey of 669 global company executives found fewer than 25 percent of the companies believe innovation performance is where it needs to be if they are to be successful in the competitive marketplace.
Powerhouse Partners - Building an Organization Culture for Breakaway Results
Connectivity is critical for any business to be a true ‘Powerhouse Partner.’ In today’s technically intricate, nothing-ever-stays-the-same-for-long global marketplace, organization leaders can no longer use governance and management models based on twentieth century military-industrial architectures, hierarchies designed to disconnect rather than to connect.
Puzzle Palaces
CIOs venturing overseas will learn to assemble the pieces the hard way
Structural Holes and Collaborative Innovation
What does it take to lead a successful company? Corporate executives today face a growing array of challenges fed by revolutions in technology and globalization. It’s enough to make an executive wonder if leading a successful company is more than a one person job.
The Global Business
Globalisation has made the world a smaller place and has changed the way of doing business in OECD countries. But did you know that a significant part of global integration reflects trade within transnational firms and industries?
The Global Leader of The Future: New Competencies For a New Era
Accenture Consulting (with Marshall Goldsmith) was recently engaged in a multi-country research project aimed at helping global organizations understand the most important characteristics of the leader of the future.
Three Major Trends Shape Multinational Corporations Sustainability
Is your industry ready for global tectronics? Find out more.
Twenty Essential Factors To Consider Before Going Global
Thinking of going global? Just what factors should you consider beforehand? As with any powerful international business plan, the first step toward crossing borders is doing your homework. Consider these twenty essential factors before you begin.
Want to Manage Tacit Knowledge?
Communities of practice offer a versatile solution
Wanted : Chief Globalization Officer
The tidal wave of 9/11, corporate scandals, war in Iraq and economic downturn seems to be subsiding. And with light at the end of the economic tunnel at long last, many organizations will be setting their sights again on overseas expansion.
Who's Who in Globalization
Determining who is who in globalization (and in the debate over globlization) isn't easy. There are famous names who write books but command no specific authority, little-known captains of industry and international trade who set mighty flows of capital and production into motion, bureacrats who lead well-known organizations, and anti-globalization speakers who can mobilize hundred of thousands of protesters.
10 Ways to Develop A High Global Business IQ
Are you ready to go global?
Here's how it might happen: You receive an e-mail from a contact in Germany asking to buy 20,000 of your widgets. Good grief! Now what? You're not set up to handle online transactions - you've just finished your website. What do you do next?
Charting Your Global Strategy : Consider Cross-boarder Alliances and Partnerships
In charting your global strategy, consider joining forces with another company of similar size and market presence that is located in a foreign country where you are already doing business, or would like to.
China : A Wakeup Call for the United States
When I was a child, my parents used to say: "Clean your plate because there are starving children in Africa and China. My message has changed. Now I have to tell my kids, "Study, and work hard, because someone in China wants your job."
Globalizing Your Website : Are you Reaching The World
Find out the importance of this activity and how to avoid the common mistakes
Go For It: Let The Year of The Rooster Wake You Up
Wake up to the business potential around you. Let the Year of the Rooster be the year you go for it!
Going Global (Branding)
A global brand building communications program - consistent across media, channels and borders - is nothing less than the holy grail of technology marketing. Yet the degree of difficulty in building and implementing a global campaign is extreme. Find out what is required to succeed
Going Global - Study Your Markets, Develop a Strategic Plan
Go global before a foreign competitor steals or marginalizes your business. Not only will you expand your market, but you will access a diverse revenue stream which is more stable since you will no longer be as vulnerable to periodic downturns in any one economy.
International Expansion Starts With The Right Mindset
The prospect of taking your company into new international markets is exciting, and there are many clear benefits as to why you should consider expanding now more than ever before, such as access to greater revenue opportunities, recognition as a global player and greater market share. Ultimate success of course comes as a result of lots of careful planning, research, patience, dedication and more often than not, just plain good timing. But at the beginning of the 21st century, this is simply not enough. The difference between survival and ultimate success comes as a result of one critical ingredient – the creation of a global mindset!
Leading in a Global World
Globalization is a driving force in business today, have you really confronted its consequences?
Localize Your Presentation for a Global Audience
The art of giving presentations to a global audience.
Making The Case For Global Leadership Succession Planning
An issue of The Economist shows that the subject of succession planning is at long last being taken a lot more seriously by organizations.
Self Development - A Life's Journey
How should I involve myself in the development of others, of systems, of organizations, within society? Questions that face us whether we are involved in domestic or international, individual, group or organizational development efforts.
Ten Tips for Going Global
Looking to go global? Here are 10 key issues to consider before embarking on the journey.
The Next Generation of Global Branding?
The history and potential future of global branding
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