In search of global leaders

For all the talk about global organizations and executives, there's no definitive answer to the question of what we really mean by "global." A presence in multiple countries? Cultural adaptability? A multilingual top team? We asked four CEOs and the head of an international recruiting agency--HSBC's Stephen Green, Schering-Plough's Fred Hassan, GE's Jeffrey-lmmelt, Flextronics's Michael Marks, and Egon Zehnder's Daniel Meiland--to tell us what they think. They share some common ground. They all agree, for example, that the shift from a local to a global marketplace is irreversible and gaining momentum. "We're losing sight of the reality of globalization. But we should pay attention, because national barriers are quickly coming down", Daniel Meiland says. "If you look ahead five or ten years, the people with the top jobs in large corporations ... will be those who have lived in several cultures and who can converse in at least two languages." But the CEOs also disagree on many issues--on the importance of overseas assignments, for instance, and on the degree to which you need to adhere to local cultural norms. Some believe strongly that the global leader should, as a prerequisite to the job, live and work in other countries. As Stephen Green put it, "If you look at the executives currently running [HSBC's] largest businesses, all of them have worked in more than one, and nearly all in more than two, major country markets." Others downplay the importance of overseas assignments. "Putting people in foreign settings doesn't automatically imbue new attitudes, and it is attitudes rather than experiences that make a culture global," says Fred Hassan. The executives' essays capture views that are as diverse and multidimensional as the companies they lead.     

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德国的税收体制与税收结构概况

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在写作教学中的几点探索

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谁想要“最好”的人

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浙江资本云南“喝咖啡”

以普洱茶闻名的云南现在正掀起一股咖啡种植潮，茶农们纷纷将因干牛枯萎的普洱茶树铲掉，种下咖啡树。这股风潮也引起了浙江资本的关注。     

高效速效消毒餐巾纸的研制

论述了使用漂粉精、稳定剂和适量的碱配制餐巾纸消毒液的方法，制做消毒餐巾纸的技术关键，用实验数据证明了餐巾纸对细菌，乙肝病毒的强力杀灭作用和良好的贮存稳定性，成功地解决了含有效氯类消毒液贮存中易分解失效的难题。