Laudicina Paul A. World out of balance. Navigating global risk to seize competitive advantage

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004. — 256 p.Understanding, planning for, and thriving in the global business environmentBusiness leaders face a global environment that is increasingly complex and treacherous. Written by the managing director of A.T. Kearney's prestigious Global Policy Institute, World Out of Balance draws upon the insights of an elite group of business leaders, academics, and government officials from around the world, focusing on the five factors that are shaping tomorrow's business environment:Globalization--rising levels of trade, communication, and travel
Demographics--slowed population growth in developed countries, and increased growth in the third world
Consumption Patterns--increasingly diverse consumer markets, causing fierce market competition
Natural Resources and Environment--oil markets reaching a crisis stage, and other shortages predicted in the coming decades
Regulation and Activism--calls for greater regulation point to long-term business challenges
With intelligence and insight, World Out of Balance provides executives, consultants, and business thinkers with the high caliber of information and insight you need to plan for, rather than react to, important emerging trends shaping the global business environment. Author Paul Laudicina offers compelling snapshots of key trends and how they may evolve in the years ahead--and provides practical scenarios and expert guidelines to help you prepare your organizations to meet these challenges and profit by them.As the saying goes, If you do not like changes, you will like irrelevance even less. From computer viruses and epidemics to terrorism and political unrest, change and uncertainty have come to define the world in which we live and do business. Rather than resisting and being paralyzed by this precarious state, executives should seize the opportunities it presents.In World Out of Balance, Paul Laudicina, managing director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, calls on the corporate community to understand the external world in order to engage it. Although anticipating and preparing for every eventuality is impossible, executives can lead more confidently if they know which corners to look around and what they may find.
(Compliments of A.T. Kearney)