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Saturday, June 25, 2022
Friday, June 24, 2022
Entertaining Diversions
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How do we define happiness and can we actively make ourselves happy?
The happiest people benefit from close social connections and resilience against life's complications, according to scientists and researchers on the subject, and there are clear steps we can take to improve our chances of happiness.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Where Forecasts Went Wrong On Trade Globalization
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The question has two components: (1) Why did demand for traded goods boom? (2) How could supply increase to satisfy this unprecedented expansion of demand?
Read on about globalization and resilience.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Factors to Consider When Scaling to a Global Workforce
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Despite the current problems plaguing supply chains, tech companies — especially those outside of the hardware sector — have limited exposure to or concern for supply chain risk. This insulation can make a rapid global expansion all the more attractive to early and mid-stage technology companies that may not yet have a significant international presence.
Without a thorough understanding of the risks, logistical and compliance needs, and cultural considerations required to maintain a cohesive business structure in a variety of international markets, however, organizations will set themselves up for failure. Again, plan early and carefully, to avoid hiccups.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Elevate Equity Inside and Out
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How can global marketers do this? There are multiple ways across an organization’s ecosystem, of which Deloitte has highlighted three within their Authentically inclusive marketing article. While you are at it, check out their Global Marketing Trends 2022.

Monday, June 20, 2022
Today in Global Small Business: Freightos Agrees to SPAC Merger
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- Freightos, a fast-growing ocean and air freight marketplace similar to Expedia in air travel, announced recently it is going public through a merger with Gersher Acquisition Company. Some interesting investors to date - surprise, surprise.
- Maersk boss say global trade is not going in reverse (might require registration).
- Roku and Walmart partner in exclusive streaming ecommerce offering.
- Retail sales slump? Not if you operate in clothing.
- Quote of the week: “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
- Who knew we needed to read Trade Therapy.

Saturday, June 18, 2022
A Bicycle Ride Around the World
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Go Beyond: Ensure LGBTQ Employees Feel Included
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That means recognizing that we all do our best work when everyone can show up as, and be celebrated for, their full, authentic selves. This is what constitutes true inclusion.
Read on to learn about their study and findings. For example, "That what makes employees feel fully included in an organization is distinct for different groups, and that an intersectional lens that captures a multiplicity of identities enables companies to tailor their inclusion efforts most effectively."
Thursday, June 16, 2022
You Tell 'em Tom
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Turn Up Your Imagination
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A design technique that immerses executives and employees deeply in various possible futures, it uses artifacts such as short movies, fictitious newspaper articles and imaginary commercials to generate transformation roadmaps. Rooted in the future but helping to act in the present, design fiction results in concrete actions taken to adjust companies’ visions, strategies, and activities to create a better future.
Read this so you don't miss out on important opportunities to envision, and design, possible futures the world over.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Being a Good Global DE&I Leader
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Monday, June 13, 2022
Today in Global Small Business: 7 Language and Learning Apps for Travelers
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- The 7 best language learning and translation apps for travelers according to R.T. Watson for the WSJ.
- Here comes Pico by ByteDance.
- Find, hire and pay remote employees in 160+ countries just got easier.
- Chipotle creates a $50 million fund to invest in early-stage tech companies.
- Quote of the week: “Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." — Anthony Burgess
- Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB says, "High inflation is a major challenge for all of us. The Governing Council will make sure that inflation returns to our two per cent target over the medium term."
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Love Is the Flower
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Friday, June 10, 2022
Overcommunicating Is Essential in Our World
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“My biggest takeaway from working with a foreign client was that sometimes overcommunicating is essential,” said [Lindsay (SFS’22) Bing [a member of a student team that consulted for Uber on three different business challenges in the areas of commercial partnerships and customer experience]. “We found that being prepared with a lot of questions for our weekly check-in meetings was the most effective use of our time to both clarify expectations and refine our work."
Read on to see how this was such a culturally and professionally enriching experience for all involved.
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Globalization Is Alive and Well
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Yes, free trade is under greater attack today than it has been in decades, especially in the United States.
Despite continued public support for foreign trade and globalization generally (even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic), a bipartisan cadre of American politicians and pundits is increasingly skeptical of, or downright hostile to, the longstanding consensus in favor of trade liberalization.
America can join with more free trade or it can miss out. Fortunately, rumors of globalization's demise have been, yet again, greatly exaggerated. Globalization is alive and well, just changing.
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Creating a Sense of Community
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All over the world, businesses are increasingly beginning to acknowledge how much they are, and should be, a part of the communities they inhabit. But their actions sometimes feel out of alignment with the goal.
Read more about what Italy's B Corps can teach global business about community.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
Ryan Heath Says Globalization Isn’t Over, It’s Just Outgrowing the World Economic Forum
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Tensions were on full display recently in Davos.
Columbia University’s Adam Tooze [professor of history] rejected the idea that globalization is ending. “It’s B.S. Ending globalization? Life as we know it would cease to exist,” he told POLITICO. “When people say this, they’re either naive or apocalyptic,” he said, adding “it’s a bad way of thinking about the problem.”
"Globalization isn't over, it's just outgrowing the World Economic Forum," says Heath.
Monday, June 06, 2022
Today in Global Small Business: The iOS App Economy
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- Smaller and emerging developers find global success on the App Store – showing the iOS app economy continues to grow.
- How to build resilience in emerging economies? Support global small businesses.
- Staying global: 3 steps.
- Quote of the week: “I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?" – Evgeny Morozov
- Conversations at Davos: From Russia to China.
- To manage global supply chain, manage proactively.
Saturday, June 04, 2022
Who Could Not Be Happy
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Friday, June 03, 2022
Thursday, June 02, 2022
Oh Everything Is Messed Up Right Now: War, China Covid Curbs, Shootings, Global Supply Chain Woes, Inflation and Rising Interest Rates
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Global growth in factory activity slowed in May as China's strict coronavirus curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted supply chains and dampened demand, adding to woes for businesses already struggling with surging raw material prices.
Oh, it's everything right now, not just one thing. What's a global business owner to do? I [Laurel Delaney] will tell you:
- Be an effective leader
- Cut expenses
- Conserve cash
- Focus on quality
- Control spending
- Lower risk
- Cut staff
- Raise prices
- Maintain existing profitable exports
Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Global K-Pop Stars BTS Go to WhiteHouse to Stop Asian Hate Crimes and Discrimination
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Last year President Biden signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to give law enforcement resources to investigate crimes against Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.