What makes opportunities like these so difficult to grasp is that, so often, they require companies to move far beyond their core into uncharted territory – into their white space. That’s a scary place, one where many companies’ experience is (as one CEO put it) “unblemished by success.” But if the danger is all too obvious, its causes are not. The white space is hard to navigate not because it...

Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, and in achieving our goals under the G-20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. We ask the OECD, the ILO, World Bank, and the WTO to report on the benefits of trade liberalisation for employment and growth at the Seoul Summit. The present document is submitted in fulfilment of that mandate. It is the produc...

History is replete with examples of armies and empires whose military success was a direct result of their technical supremacy. The Roman Empire's expertise in road building allowed them to keep their armies supplied during campaigns. Half of the world's people were subjects of the British Empire at its pinnacle ; due in large part to their ships, which enabled them to project force around the ...

A theoretical framework is outlined in which the key construct is the need for (nonspecific) cognitive closure. The need for closure is a desire for definite knowledge on some issue. It represents a dimension of stable individual differences as well as a situationally evocable state. The need for closure has widely ramifying consequences for social-cognitive phenomena at the intrapersonal, inte...

Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, and in achieving our goals under the G-20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. We ask the OECD, the ILO, World Bank, and the WTO to report on the benefits of trade liberalisation for employment and growth at the Seoul Summit. The present document is submitted in fulfilment of that mandate. It is the produc...