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When Markets Collide >> New York Times | Reaping the Fruits of Globalization In the end, the reader is left wishing that Mr. El-Erian were as clear about the causes of the global financial transformation, and the appropriate policy responses to it, as he is about how to realize its benefits.
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It's the final day of blog hosting by the authors of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone From Everywhere for Everything. Jim Hemerling, co-author and senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group's San Francisco office, is our host today; he'll be checking in every now and then to take your questions. - - - - - - - You're Not Just Competing for Customers In the era of globality, we will all be competing with everyone from everywhere for everything.
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When I first saw the title "The No Complaining Rule" I had flashbacks to family road trips to "up north" Wisconsin, full of truly Ollie Hopnoodle-esque moments. But the title refers to a new business book about positivity: The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work by Jon Gordon, who also wrote The Energy Bus. The No Complaining Rule is constructed like a parable, with anecdotes that build to a point at which the fictional workplace develops "an actionable plan to win the battle against individual and organizational negativity.
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