More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.
Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
