The Cool Factor: Hotel G in Beijing

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I'm always on the lookout for cool things related to global business and while I was scanning the Chicago Tribune over the weekend I caught:

Icelandic composer raves about Poland

Why am I sharing this article with you?  Because deep within the body of it Olafur Arnalds mentions his favorite hotel:  Hotel G.

Q: What are your favorite hotels?

A: I've probably stayed at more than 100 hotels in the last couple of years, but my favorite must be Hotel G (hotel-g.com) in Beijing. Very cool interior design, and you can choose the color of your window with the switch of a button in the room. I have tried very hard to persuade the management staff to use the master control to write my name on the outside of the building with the window colors, without much luck! And the floors are so soft that you don't really need the comfy bed. I stay there every time I go to Beijing, if not only for the friendly staff and nice food, then the iPod docks … in every room.

So the next time you travel to Beijing to drum up business, check out the very cool looking place.

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Featured in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, May 22nd and wanted to share the piece with you.

Back in the 1980s, Laurel Delaney worked at a Chicago manufacturing firm that made chemical cleaning products.

Over a nine-year period, the company grew from $250,000 to $6 million in annual sales by "going global."

The firm eventually sold products in more than two dozen countries and reaped approximately a third of its sales overseas.

Watching that transformation spurred Delaney to adopt an adage to which she has adhered ever since: "Go Global or Die."

Read the story here.

Artist: Chrissy Weisgard, title "Crossing Borders," Denmark.