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It’s a Small, Small World

Globalization signals that the world is getting smaller. And that
message has hit home with a vengeance. As Tom Peters points
out in his book, The Circle of Innovation (New York: Knopf,
1997), “You’ve heard of ‘global village.’ I say a village is too

big. Try ‘global block.’ Better yet, try ‘global mall.’” What Peters
is saying is that not one single manager is more than a fraction
of a second away from any other business person or employee,
anywhere in the world. When you stop to think about that and
the residual affects, it’s really quite astounding and life-chang-

ing—both personally and professionally.
Need a computer consultant? You can hire one as easily in
Bangalore, India as you
can in Silicon Valley. Need
Distance learning/e-
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interactive learning among people who match in Louisville,
are not physically present in the same
Kentucky or somewhere in
location. Using audioconferencing, the United Kingdom. And
videoconferencing, online streaming
video presentations, and analogs, dis- then there’s the growing
tance learning can reach globally to popularity and empower-
train unlimited numbers of people in a ing effects of distance
never-ending list of subjects. learning, sometimes called
e-learning—an innovative
approach to traditional classroom training, where employees
can live and work in Omaha and attend online classes at

Harvard without moving to Cambridge to do so.

Be Fanatical About Fanatically Excited People!

There is no greater or more powerful weapon for an organiza-
tion than an army of fanatically excited and engaged people!
Does “fanatical” sound too strong? It’s not. Fanaticism implies