Globalization & Divorces!
Every day we read and hear of outsourcing, imports from china, call centers in
Last weekend as I sat in front of the idiot box surfing channels I heard we have become a ‘nation of divorces’. Approximately 50% of adult Americans who have ever been married are divorced. This makes little sense!
If our corporations invest millions of dollars in acquiring other companies, setting up businesses in a new market in a far off country, enter into a joint venture to market a new brand developed and managed by an unknown partner. We are willing to commit to a relationship with a partner who looks different (racially), speak a different language (dialect and script) and hold cultural beliefs that may be different from ours.
Why do we struggle with our life partner who most likely was someone we were able to meld minds with not too long ago. Today we can instantly converse with our business partners on the other end of the world, we can hear them, read them, write to them and even see them multiple times a day over the internet, video conference calls but we cannot communicate with our life partner who is very much local? We have scaled physical distances but there exist chasms in the mental connection with our very own life partner.
What does it take to hold a family together that is so different from corporate GLOBALIZATION? I tried to brainstorm:
* Objectivity
* Understanding of trade offs
* Agreement on compromises
* Common goals
* Uninhibited communication
