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Friday, March 24, 2023
Globalization Is Working Better
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Taking a Family Business to a New Level
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The story of Perfect Plants Nursery shows how even a decades-old, family-owned business in a historically wholesale niche can pull off a digital transformation and scale quickly.
Discover how they became a fast-growth e-commerce success story.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Supply Chain Costs to Normalize in 2023
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This year Skechers expects supply chain costs to normalize as shipping prices come down, developments that will ease margin pressure and propel the brand to its goal of $10 billion in annual sales by 2026, the company’s CFO John Vandemore said at the UBS Consumer and Retail Conference on Wednesday.
“You saw 40-foot-high cube container rates go from an average of about $3,000 to $25,000. So for an average pair of shoes that took the landed embedded freight cost from something between 25 and 50 cents to $2 and $2.50,” he [Vandemore] said. “Last year quite frankly wasn’t my proudest year from a gross margin perspective, but I do believe you know a lot of those exogenous factors are beginning to abate which should lead to improvement later on.”
Read more here.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
Today in Global Small Business: Remote Work Is Here to Stay
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- Take your global remote workforce from policy to practice.
- What's the magic number for working in-office weekly?
- The global talent pool is open for business.
- Quote of the week: "People are more productive working at home than people would have expected. Some people thought that everything was just going to fall apart, and it hasn’t." – Mark Zuckerberg
- Oh really. The king of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, says engineers who joined Meta in-person perform better than those who joined remotely. Check out his above quote.
- What are the global workplace trends in 2023?
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Keep Breathing
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Friday, March 17, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2023
True Global Leadership: The Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Globalization Is a Fact
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With growing concerns that globalization is in retreat amid rising geopolitical tensions, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an audience of policymakers, business leaders, and academics at the 2023 SIEPR Economic Summit that there’s no turning back on the interdependence of world economies.
Globalization is facing headwinds Rice said. The strongest, she said, are coming from China where government leaders have failed to meet international expectations of liberalizing the country’s economy.
Read on for her remarks.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Go Broad, Go Deep, and Go Global
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We state it as: Go Broad, Go Deep, and Go Global

Monday, March 13, 2023
Today in Global Small Business: Keep the Bicycle Moving Because Trade Is Still Contributing to Recovery and Growth
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- No doubt it’s a tough time for global trade, battered by supply chain issues and geopolitical concerns. But there’s a useful metaphor to help navigate our way through these challenges: Keep the bicycle moving.
- Expand into foreign markets and increase e-commerce sales.
- Is English the true language of startups?
- Quote of the week: "You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes" – Marc Russell Benioff
- The importance of cross-cultural communication in global business.
- Discover why creativity is a big driver to global business success.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Seeing What Is Invisible to Others
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