Twitter has enabled me to effect better connection with clients, employees, peers and, yes, even prospects.

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This creates an emotional connection and ripple effect whereby others around the world will want to visit the country, do business it with and build their lives in a particular place.

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The complexity of the business environment, where the connection between cause and effect is so difficult to visualize, makes it necessary to admit mistakes, explained Levitt.

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