A New World View
A new world view is taking shape.

Rising from the ashes of nation-based economies, economic growth springs from regional-based states. Yesterday’s economic theories are no longer relevant. Today’s worldwide economy is powered by technology. Knowledge is its currency.

Kenichi Ohmae, a business and corporate strategist and author of more than 100 books, explores the implications and opportunities posed these new drivers of growth and economic power. He offers a strategy for coping in an era where it is tougher to define companies, customers and competitors than ever before.

Among his insights:

• Leaders who ignore the borderless world are doing so at their own peril.
• National- and economic-based policy is obsolete. Failure to address international money flows renders it meaningless.
• Business decisions are four dimensional in today's borderless world. The include communications, capital, corporations and consumers.
• Competitiveness is enhanced by building on common platforms.


Ohmae opens his book admitting ideas rarely emerge perfectly formed. They evolve; they develop. For a first pass, The Next Worldwide Stage is a thoughtful, insightful, well-written and easily understood rendering of the post-globalized world. ( )

This book was ok. The ideas are not terribly original. As someone on Amazon pointed out, just a different take on the same ideas as Friedman's "World is Flat". After about quarter ways through the book, I flipped to the last section where he starts spewing his proposals one how the world should change e.g. more decentralisation between govt and provinces, probably an extension of his ideas from his previous book. He talks much about the nation state and its continued relevance. I returned the book to the library soon after. ( )