Global Chamber® is pleased to announce "Global Is Good", a multi-year, ongoing initiative that spotlights the goodness of global business including exporting, trade and investment... and identifies more opportunities for members and leaders to succeed.
Thinking and acting globally creates prosperity, connectivity and understanding for those with the background and initiative to engage. That prosperity comes from trade through exchanges of goods and services, distributing wealth across proactive leaders and communities.
In addition, cross-border trade advances understanding and common good, enabling more people to listen, negotiate, mediate and act in ways that keep the relationships going, working through challenges. Trade success requires ‘win-win’ thinking, not just one side winning, for sustainability, which leads to a global mindset and more good things. These are all good goals for individuals and communities that lead to multiple good outcomes.
‘Global’ doesn’t get the love that 'local' does.
Anything ‘global’ is more complicated than ‘local’, and too often it gets a bad perception… war, outsourced jobs, ‘foreigners’, risk, cultural difference, etc. On the other hand, “local” has often felt good, close, and safe.
There's also proximity bias, the tendency for people to show favoritism and give preferential treatment to people and situations that are close by.
A result is that not enough people think globally, or do business globally. For example, only one in 100 (1%) of U.S. companies exporting despite 85% of business being outside the U.S. Only 12% of U.S. GDP is exports, while Germany's GDP includes over 50% contribution from exporting. The capacity to do better in the U.S. and nearly all countries exists... to create more benefit locally and globally.
Not enough companies have a global mindset.
To pull a global team together... with diverse backgrounds and thinking, to go after new markets and opportunities, takes real vision and leadership - like we see in the global tribe. We certainly know when that doesn't exist... leaders on teams look the same, have similar background, and are subject to group think, often getting stuck. Say 'no' to bringing on the same old, same old... breakthrough for innovation!
This initiative sponsored by Global Chamber® shares information and success stories through our members to explain more why ‘global is good’, to adjust the mindset of all leaders to be open to global engagement, and then create the mechanisms to make it easier for them to get involved with global opportunities. It's important for all of us, our children, our communities and the future.
So that more people embrace ‘global’ to take advantage of opportunities, we are opening the door to gain access, create jobs, benefit and change the world for the better. Won't you join us?
Peace and prosperity are the natural results of trade. Trade encourages discussion, listening, understanding, flexibility, resilience, reasonableness, negotiation, compromise, commerce, sustainability and success.
Watch for a series of discussions talking about how 'Global Is Good' including conversations on how everyone can become more involved and benefit. Let's create a better, global future.
The new globalization is a smaller, better world - where we all benefit. Join us in exporting, trade and investment. Contact founder Doug Bruhnke at doug@globalchamber.org for more information.
Read more in InBusiness Magazine HERE and jump in along the way.
Watch for the book 'Global Is Good' coming in 2024 authored by Cesar Trabanco and Doug Bruhnke.
Be global and UNSTOPPABLE!
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