The rapid advancement of technology has accelerated the necessity for companies to develop global Sourcing and Recruitment capabilities in order to access sustainable talent streams that will keep them competitive. But locating talent is only half the battle. There are a number of complex economic, cultural, and social forces that you need to consider and adapt into your Sourcing strategy in order to ensure your success. Adam will share several of his experiences that showcase both the need to be aware of and sensitive to many of the complexities as well as offer some practical perspective and advice to help you avoiding paying what he calls the “dumb tax.” He will also highlight the reality that, regardless of global location, the notion of “trust” underpins our ability to make inroads to and connections with our target candidates.
9. Trust, Business, & Globalization
Globalization depends upon well regulated markets--the rule
of law
High Levels of Weak Property
Corruption Rights,
Unenforceable Unfair Legal
Contracts System
These factors make businesses less willing to invest in a
country--and works against globalization
12. The Inequality Trap
The stability of trust, corruption, and inequality--and the strong
interconnections among them suggests that it will not be easy
to build up trust or to end corruption
To build trust, we need to focus on two key issues:
14. The Rise and Fall of a Computer
Empire
1980s - Wang annual sales 1990 - Dr. Wang dies
reached $3 billion with and his son Fred
33,000 employees takes over as CEO
1951 - Dr An Wang founded
1992 - Wang
files for
bankruptcy
20. Corporations Don’t Always Get It
Right
The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as “Kekoukela“,
meaning “Bite the wax tadpole” or “female horse stuffed with
wax”, depending on the dialect
Pepsi’s “Come Alive With the Pepsi”
translated into “Pepsi Brings Your
Ancestors Back From the Grave” in
Chinese
PhD – Political Science from Harvard. Chicago born Japanese-American.
Corruption rests upon a foundation of low generalized trust and high in-group trust, as Gambetta noted about the Italian Mafia. The higher the level of trust, the lower the level of corruption (higher scores on the corruption index indicate more honest governments ): This would make sense because: We want to limit the operational complexity of starting a business Countries might include: China and Brazil However This might rule out precisely some of the areas that our clients need to be in and in which we could create competitive advantage Perhaps we should consider our ability to start up in these locations as an expertise in its own right (S3)
Together with science comes innovation. The World Economic Forum rated countries according to their levels of scientific innovation