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...rest of the world, and Indian leaders make nuclear gestures as if Dr. Strangelove had just landed in Delhi. And as some of us are able to fly across continents for business or pleasure, others are propelled out of their homelands by poverty and necessity and war, in record numbers: the number of refugees in the world has gone up 1,000% since...
...fueled the other. We forget this because as a status quo power we want to freeze a global order that benefits us. We'd much rather hold to the belief that new powers will be only too happy to continue to be led by a Western club whose historical record of treating non-Westerners has left a grudge we'd also rather forget...
...ratio. You are suggesting there is some spurious--some fallacy in that. There isn't a fallacy here. I look at past historical periods when we had similar leveling, and you know, what comes to mind is 1929. We have had a tripling of the stock market to a record high level in the past five years, and there is only one other time when that has happened, which was '24 to '29. So history doesn't encourage me to think people have suddenly learned something...
With that record of innovation, workers are a bit skeptical about the office of the future. What will the geniuses in real estate come up with in the next quarter-century? If current trends are any indication, hide. Consider "hoteling," the latest workplace experiment, which treats employees as though they were visiting nomads who are assigned a phone and portable desk by a concierge. Or perhaps the "head cubicle," as imagined by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, a square helmet that will let CEOs "stack us up like firewood in a warehouse on the outskirts of town, where rents...
Despite GM's amazing record, we can be quite confident that the company will not lead the FORTUNE 500 we publish next April. Barring calamity or another jump in oil prices, the new champ will be Wal-Mart, already the world's largest retailer by a mile. Like some cyborg athlete, Wal-Mart moves at a pace that would kill most of its competitors and somehow keeps it up while growing bulkier...