MGMT 1000 Lecture Notes - International Business
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Understanding the issues & importance of external stakeholders. Dialogue lets us explore the views of others and communicate ideas. Meeting should not be win/lose debates because then people become very defensive and cannot learn from one another. Dialogue acts as a bridge, where judgment is suspended to create an opportunity for insight. It allows people to learn to learn from others through listening. Dialogue is not: discussion based, negotiation based, opinion based, truth based, consensus based, agenda based, leader-led, or time driven. Globalization worldwide interconnections (blurred boundaries within and between organizations, nations, and global interests) Growing worldwide interconnections distinct events stimulate global interconnections (however they are not always clear or steady) Rapid discontinuous change process has occurred rapidly but not at a steady pace. Increased number and diversity of participants small to medium sized enterprises (smes) now participate in global business (increases diversity among participants) Growing complexity worldwide have different simple answers to the same questions.