Over on Facebook Fred Skoler and his team at Global Mind Games are using Facebook as the platform for innovation games.
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It has been found that the most productive and consequential work is that conducted with a global perspective in mind, or one that addresses universal issues.
With this in mind, global investors sold out of Asian equities again Thursday.
That executives identified such a broad range of risks told us that global supply disruption is indeed a top-of-mind issue for managers of global corporations.
On a side note, keep in mind that MF Global had credit facilities in place with JPMorgan.
Two years ago the Maharishi established his own "country, " a borderless state of mind called the Global Country of World Peace.
"It opens the mind-set to the global challenges, " says Mr. Callaghan of ArcelorMittal.
The regional and indeed global repercussions of the development are simply mind-boggling.
Less government is what FCC Chairman Michael Powell had in mind: "To subject a global network to disparate local regulatory treatment by 51 different jurisdictions would be to destroy the very qualities that embody the technological marvel that is the Internet, " he said.
Never mind the fact that we had developed a global customer base and sales record that contradicted his estimation.
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Bear in mind, also, that in making the global capital market a safer place, the policy-reform agenda goes far beyond the extent to which developing countries should encourage or discourage particular sorts of inflow.
Notice, mind you, that none of the articles claiming global warming is causing a crop crisis ever talk about such apparently irrelevant things as crop production trends in the real world.
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And bear in mind that the OPEC countries produce about 40 percent of global oil.
This scene came to mind earlier this month when the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released its National Climate Assessment draft report.
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This hardening of the mind raises an interesting question when combined with a broad global trend: the demographics of aging populations in Europe, Japan, the United States, and other high income countries.
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Other companies have been slow to adapt to this new mind-set, caught in pseudo dilemmas, swinging between a global and a local leadership strategy.
Update: I asked Soros a question on the mind of many investors: given all that you understand about the global economy, where are the bargains.
We want to be top of the mind space of any investor in the Asian region, anchored by our global thought leadership.
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That global, holistic view leads us to believe that portfolios must have European risk in mind, but also do not need to be overly conservative.
Considering the trading markets for currencies themselves, the dollar figures in 90 percent of those transactions, nearly 70 percent of global central bank holdings are denominated in dollars, and with cross border trade in mind for individuals in countries with thinly traded currencies, the dollar is the go-between currency of choice 90 percent of the time.
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One thing to bear in mind is that when Ferguson arrived in November 1986, Manchester United was far from a global powerhouse.
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