fear, loss, fear of loss, fear of missing out
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“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire”
──Jean de La Fontaine’s aphorism
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Pankaj Ghemawat: The Thought Leader Interview
by Art Kleiner
The seer of “semiglobalization” argues for appreciating regional distinctions.
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In a way, that’s a symptom of the same issue that affects writing about globalization in general. Jean de La Fontaine’s aphorism “Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire” captures much of the utopian/dystopian quality of publications about the flat world, the death of distance, the end of history, and so forth. But a reality-based perspective on global strategy leads to different prescriptions. To which I should add, of course, that realism is not a recommendation to stay at home. Columbus managed to believe that the world was round but still took a pretty interesting trip — and discovered some unexpected things on the way!
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Art Kleiner (kleiner_art@ strategy-business.com) is editor-in-chief of strategy+ business and author of Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success (Doubleday, 2003).
This article is from Spring 2008
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