The Call to Globalize

If people, companies and organizations of all kinds are drawn together to form associations for the purpose of exchanging information, networking, solving problems and addressing opportunities—it stands to reason that local contacts are better if linked to regional networks, which in turn are better if they are linked to national networks, and so on.

Ideas have no boundaries, and history has shown that those societies, which create such boundaries or walls, eventually whither and die. It follows from this that those associations that will do best are those that succeed in linking the largest number of the planet’s best and brightest minds. Who does not want to be in the mainstream of human thought?—particularly in those areas that are critical to your livelihood as a professional, as a researcher, or as a business.

The problem of globalization is not whether you should—you really have no choice, any more than you can choose not to breathe! Globalization is simply a fact of life—the defining trend of our times. No, the real problem of globalization is how best to do it—how best to identify the markets that are most important for your organization, as well as the types of sustainable programs and governance structures that will have the greatest change to grow and thrive in those markets.

Simply put, the organizations that are asking themselves these questions right now are the ones that are still going to be calling the shots fifteen years from now.