Word: interconnectedness
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As our world has become an interconnected village, community service has gone global as well. More and more Americans are ambassadors of goodwill, no longer content to let Washington alone define our nation's links to the world. Every day I learn about another inspiring and ingenious effort by Americans...
Such foot-dragging is dangerous for Indonesia and the rest of the world. As the WHO outlined in its annual World Health Report, released Thursday, the globe has grown so interconnected that open international cooperation is the only way to respond to infectious disease threats like avian flu. Diseases don...
The nature of work has changed since Hawthorne, so teamwork alone isn't enough. Companies that thrive in the knowledge-driven global economy are spread out, with loose hierarchies, not rigid centralized structures. They depend on complex, constantly changing streams of information that can't be contained by any one...
The same Western powers that bombarded their way into foreign markets and countries now, of course, quiver behind their own protectionist ramparts in fear of cheap Chinese goods, for the processes of globalization are continuously evolving. Indeed they have now "outpaced our mind-set," Chanda warns. Petty tribalism still hampers...
Researchers from Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, reviewed a database of 12,067 densely interconnected people - that is, a group that included many families and friends - who had all participated in a major American heart study between 1971 and 2003. The participants met with heart researchers every...