Global Trends And Global Governance

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"Global Trends and Global Governance" is a concise and practical guide that explains the key political, economic, ecological and social factors that shape the process of globalization. Written in a clear and accessible style, it is an indispensable handbook for activists, civil servants, policy researchers, and anyone interested in getting involved in political action.

Packed with useful data, the book includes analysis of the US economy and US foreign policy as part of a wider critique of UN-unilaterlism, revealing the need to establish more cooperative and inclusive forms of global politics. Public action, such as the organized protests in Seattle and Prague, and the demonstrations at the environment summit in the Hague, are now having an impact on the way that the world is governed. Addressing this changing situation, and the implications that it holds for human security, the contributors analyze ways in which we can evolve new ways of working together to cope with problems of a transnational nature.

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Japan and India.......2006-07-13

Japan is dealing with its labor shortage and the high cost of labor by going multinational. Companies found it cheaper to employ female labor in Thailand or Mexico to assemble electrical goods than to produce them in Japan. The location of assembly and manufacturing plants abroad assures access to key markets: Mexican factories give Japan free access to the American and Canadian markets, while automobile factories in England and Wales provide a European base for the EC market. Profits go to Toyota and Mitsubitishi. Japan's focus is making money. Japan's banking practices will clean up. Japan will continue to fund Asia development. Japan will prevent nuclear escalation by stabilizing North Korea financial aid. Japan has received 4 Nobel prizes for science in comparison to 140 wins by the US. "City in the sky" development will transform real estate upward.

Japan imports most of its food. Food production in Japan is inefficient. There are many reasons for the inefficiency, such as, lack of incentives caused by subsidized wages for the farmers, lack of planning, and production/financial weakness as a result of nationalization philosophy which does not face the raw pressures of capitalism that reward or punish based on performance. Japan will reform political isolation statutes and open US agriculture imports. Japan will increase its domestic food production by creating year round food production by Greenhouse, new bio-agricultural seed strains, and privatizing food production. Japan will continue to invest in Agricultural resource in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Canada.

India per capita GNP is $311 verses $5,000 for China. This means India's total GNP is less than half of Italy's and China's and 1/6 to 1/7 of Japan's. What are the chances that India and China can escape present low levels of average income and continue to enjoy high rates of economic growth? If growth can be sustained at 5 percent over the next few decades than progress will be assured.

India has a rapidly growing elder population. Average life expectancy is about 58 years for both male and female, a result of improved health care, diet, sanitation, and general standards of living. The Indian government has considerably less power to reach into the villages and cajole peasant families to limit their size. The desire to bear children and enhance family income remains strong. Fertility rates in India are 4.3. India population increases have been 16.8 million each year in the 1985-90 period.

Agriculture accounts for 60 percent of India employment. Rice and wheat are the main agricultural outputs. The miracle rice variety gained much greater yields in irrigated semiarid areas of the northwest. "Overall, India food supplies have risen sharply over the past decades, and it normally has sufficient stocks in hand to meet drought and famine conditions." The signs are the green revolutions have been spent. The successes of Indian agriculture have not been uniform: no incentives to adopt new seeds in intensive labor rice cultivation. In the drier states much depends on the availability of water supplies, affected by government irrigation schemes. Both central and state governments are less concerned with countering mass inequalities would raise thorny issues of property rights, caste, and privilege. Agricultural development and national income rise and the uneven agricultural gains are probably insufficient to match population increase.

While struggling to increase food output, Indian governments must "move their economies into manufacturers and services", to obtain higher per capita income and absorb the tens of millions of new entrants into the work force. Iron and Steel, cement, locomotive, automobiles, shipbuilding, defense-related production, engineering, and machine tools were all supported by the state. Transport, mining, and utilities were taken into the public sector. As a result there are a number of large publicly owned corporations controlling steel, aeronautics, engineering, and petrochemicals.

India has a 43 percent adult illiteracy rate. This is a challenge in rural India, where the tradition of education is not as strong. Over 5 million Indian students are in higher education. The drive to catch up with Japan will drive development of manufacturing, science, design, and technology. Japan has ¼ the number of scientific and technical personnel engaged in research and development, a 30 to 1 disparity. How can India catch up with Japan? India devotes 3 to 4 percent of its GNP to education verses 6 by the US.

India will build real estate infrastructure rapidly transforming their society into an industrial base. Nuclear energy programs in India will provide an increased availability of energy for manufacturing. Historically, power plants have been built in poorly accessible locations and the energy usage under utilized. Government plan was blamed for the design. India government stability will remain a concern. The government is controls most of the countries resources, transportation, health care and management effectiveness of these resources will fluctuate. Large public works projects will tax the middle class as the infrastructure is established. As India accelerates its growth rate to 8.5 GDP, the basic family unit will be threatened: 1. smaller families meaning less children 2. less marriages 3. and more separation between rich and the poor.

India could start building robots. India, already has a machine-tool industry, which is a natural foundation for a serious move into robotics. It has a foundation of science and engineering talent.

Environment damage caused by population growth and modernization is immense. Around New Delphi, a stagger 60 percent of its forests are lost. "Of the countries 304 million hectacres 50 percent are subject to ecological degradation. About 80 percent of the population lives under substandard conditions" and "massive poverty was forcing the poor to degrade the environment on which they depended for sheer survival". India will need to increase their prioritization valuation of education. A balance between agricultural, manufacturing, and education will need to be thought about.

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The decline of the IMF: is it reversible? Should it be reversed?(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(International Monetary Fund): An article from: Global Governance

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Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Eartha Kitt of change-management gurus. Just when you think the grand dame has taken her final bow, she comes bounding back onto the scene with a new act that's as shrewd and insightful as anything any young kitten has to offer--but benefiting from decades of wisdom and experience that puts the whole litter to shame. Take, for instance, Evolve!, Kanter's latest in a string of highly influential books on organizational management (including Innovation, World Class, When Giants Learn to Dance, and The Change Masters). Yes, the ubiquitous dot (as in "com") after the E in "Evolve" on the book's cover may suggest to the cynical that this is another old-school change guru weighing in with the obligatory guide to making it on the Net--and months after e-commerce mania has subsided, to boot! And granted, the thumbnail keys to successful I-preneuring that form the book's structure--namely, a willingness to improvise, a desire to network aggressively with other sites, a readiness to create "integrated communities," and a commitment to creating a workplace culture that attracts and retains the best talent--aren't necessarily breakthrough insights, however cogently presented.

But Evolve! stands out among the vast spate of e-commerce how-tos of the past few years because of the meticulous, rigorous research on the part of Kanter and her legion of Harvard Business associates. Here, coupled with Kanter's always-keen prose, that research translates into perhaps the most vivid, probing, and instructive anthology of e-commerce success (and failure) stories yet to appear in one book. Kanter & Co. conducted over 300 interviews, plus surveys with nearly three times as many companies worldwide, to tease out their conclusions on what works and what doesn't when doing business online--with brash start-ups as well as brick-and-mortar giants. That serious-minded, Harvard-quality sleuthing is reflected in the long narratives that make up the meat of the book, detailing the complete online journeys of some of the world's most high-profile companies, from venerable offliners venturing online (among them, Arrow Electronics, Barnes & Noble, NBC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Williams-Sonoma, and Sun) to the Net-born (Amazon, eBay, Razorfish, EarthWeb, iXL, Renren.com, and Abuzz, which clearly emerges here as Kanter's pet model of how to do it right in entrepreneurial cyberspace). If you've followed the start-up scene with eagle eyes every day for the past five years, you might already be familiar with these companies' twisting, turning story lines. If, more likely, you haven't, you're in for some illuminating object lessons on what works (and what doesn't) on the precarious, often uncharted terrain of e-commerce--not to mention some really good reading.

Shortly before Evolve! went to press, Kanter added two new chapters to address the latest changes in the e-commerce market. That's a valuable update, but even if she'd skipped the postscript, Evolve! is blessedly free of reckless cybermania. And, unlike many such dot-com how-tos, it's wise enough to know that, far from having completely rewritten the rules of good business, the callow world of e-commerce has much to learn from the offline forbears it often scoffs at. For these reasons, the observations and advisories in Evolve! should transcend the inevitable fluctuations of the e-commerce market in the years to come. In other words, this is the real thing: smart, deeply researched advice from a pro whose talents are evident on every page. Well, except for the rap lyrics she's penned for "Evolve!--The Song," which kick off the book, and run along such lines: "You're not alone, so start placing your bet/On finding lots of partners throughout the Net!" Cole Porter she's not. Then again, maybe they wouldn't sound so lame if only we could get that other old pro, Eartha Kitt, to slip into her catsuit and purr her way through them. --Timothy Murphy

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An Organization CAN'T Evolve, It CAN Learn: A Critical Evaluation of a Book Title.......2007-08-24

Choosing the right metaphor is one of the best ways to assure your ideas (if you have any) will endure. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (or her editors) have failed by confusing evolution and learning.

A species evolves by having the old individuals that make up the species die or divide. Individuals don't evolve. Individuals can only learn.

I am always concerned when someone misuses a metaphor, particularly when it figures prominently in their work. If they can't get THAT right, what else have they gotten wrong?

The ideas in the book seem tired to me as well, but I would like to leave you with the above thought as an example of critical evaluation of a books "cover" or title. It is a particularly useful skill for readers who are considering investing time and money on a book before there are reviews.

New Economy Lobotomy & more...........2006-06-20

Author Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard (or was when she wrote the book), She has been named as on eof the 50 most powerful women in the world by the TIMES of London. Based on more than 300 inteviews and a global survey of more than 700 companies, the book Evolve! is a study in e-culture, strategy and community. Written back in 2001 -- the book still deserves to be on the shelf of every business exec or entrepreneur in this continually evolving new economy (and at the bargain price it's available on Amazon.com -- add it to your collection now). Kanter talks about talent, change (not just cosmetic) and social evolution...community takes a big role. Perhaps the one element she could have covered better is content-- since so much of what we see today is user generated content and content that is 2-way interactive. Commerce is not a one way street anymore....still the book covers many basics I'm sure you did not learn in B School and it gives insight and strategy into the why's and e-culture and how the Internet fits into the corporate structure of today and tomrorow...or perhaps how it is shaping it....The index is very good and can be used as a reference for making presentations at work or in developing your next-gen digital commerce start-up!

Still relevant for e-business managers in traditional firms.......2005-01-25

This book is to some extent out-of-date. It is written in the dot-com era. And there is indeed a lot of hype on the young start-ups' heroic characteristics such as speed, flexibility, and courage that traditional large companies couldn't compete with in the short run. Today, we all know that these characteristics didn't stand the test of time in a ruthless competitive landscape.

But I'll still recommend this book for a special target audience: People, who are working on an e-business project for a traditional corporation will still get much inspiration from Moss-Kanter's book. Also in retrospect, I find that her best sections in the book were those on describing the tough change management processes that she found in successful "old economy" firms like Williams-Sonoma, Honeywell, and Reuters. In all these companies, a strong conventional company culture made it extremely difficult for the e-business team to navigate towards success. In 2005, many companies have still not made much of their business model online.

This is also a very important book for me personally. I read this book on a vacation to Cyprus in May 2001 just before taking on a long 3-year assignment as an e-business manager for a large industrial firm in Denmark. I experienced most of the difficulties that Moss-Kanter describes in her book.

I find the merit of this book in the very colourful case stories of traditional organizations' struggle with e-business initiatives. The author conducted more than 300 interviews of both traditional companies and dotcoms, successes and failures alike, in a research project before writing this book.

As you may know, Harvard professor Moss-Kanter is a leading expert on change management. Her chapter on the "change wheel" is in a class of its own.

Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business

About the author..........2004-03-22

This review is not so much about the book but rather about the author. I had the chance to have Rosabeth Moss Kanter as a Professor for a semester last year while doing an MBA at Harvard. She has an extraordinary personality, full of passion, full of colors and surprises. A fresh, insightful and pragmatic perspective of the world. A Grand lady who constantly evolves with her time. In my opinion, that's why her books, and Evolve! in particular, are so well written and so inspirational for all of us. Grand books are the reflect of Grand personalities. I cannot wait to get her new book "Confidence".

One sided observation rather than an Analysis.......2003-03-09

I thought the naration was terible on this CD, author was not to the point. More of a one sided observation presented as a story rather than a complete analysis.

Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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