What would you do to deal with global "Globalisation" in 10 or 20 more years?

What would I do to deal with global “Globalization” in 10 or 20 more years?

Advances in technology such as mobile phones, airplanes, telephones, and the internet have made the growth of transport and communication networks possible. Amongs other things this means that people and countries can exchange information and goods more quickly and in a less complicated way. This process is called “Globalization”.

Globalization or globalisation comes from “globe” and means the worldwide coming together of countries and nations. Globalization defined as a process that based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level among the people, companies, and governments. Globalization was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments. Globalization can also be simply described as the movement of goods, ideas, values, and people around the world. Globalization, however, has existed for centuries by way of evolving trade routes, including the slave trade, colonization, and immigration.

Globalization has brought enormous impacts on the various aspects of human life in many societies, particularly of those involved. Not only it changes many types of lifestyles, but also involves the bridging of temporal, spatial, and cultural distances in new ways, and that these processes tend to be driven by the revolutions in transport technologies, communications, the internationalization of capital notions of the world system, and post industrialism.

You might think that globalization is a recent development, right? But, International trade has really influenced changes across borders for centuries. Due to technical, cultural, and economic developments that have come about through globalization, the world grows closer together and there is an active exchange of goods among the countries. However, not only does an exchange of products and economic goods take place, but also services, knowledge, cultural goods, and even languages. All of this indivual elements are closely linked and influence each other.

Yet, where there is light, there is shadow. Because of globalization and its intense exchange of goods people and the environment often suffer. For example, if a company decides to move production to an economically disadvantaged country, people in industrialized country lose their jobs. At the same time, job oppurtunities open up to many locals in the economically disadvantaged countries. Many people in these countries work for very little money in comparison to those in industrialized countries. Therefore, they often remain poor and more often than not don't have sufficient insurance, social insurance or health insurance cover. A further disadvantage of globalization is ecological problems such as climate change. Therefore, many sides to globalization which affect almost all aspects of life causing me to think that the chain of positive and negative effects will continue to grow further.

Thus, how do to deal with global “Globalization” in 10 or 20 more years?

In my opinion, the first thing that I have to prepare to deal with globalization in 10 or 20 years later is improve life skills. Nowadays, a great need exists for the development of adaptation skills. The Internet, improved communications, and the globalization of commerce are changing our lives, and unfortunately, no one is able to accurately predict the direction or rate of the change. We live and work in other countries while maintaining constant contact with our homes, we access information faster than ever before, medical advances improve and lengthen our lives, and technology assists oppressed peoples in overthrowing dictatorships that have been entrenched for decades.

At the same time, those who have not been able to board the new-world train are finding it harder than ever to keep up. Workers who lose their jobs and seek similar employment elsewhere find those positions defunct. People can no longer wait for good times to return to resume the practice of their erstwhile crafts. Rather, they must retrain themselves in hopes of participating in a future economy the nature and direction of which no one really understands.

Students are inefficiently expending resources in the scramble for knowledge and skills, largely because no one knows what to study or how to train. Those who adapt poorly will struggle in the globalized world, and those who are unable to adapt at all will be relegated to lifestyles that most of us consider unacceptable.

The next thing that I am going to prepare is becoming more adaptable in change. In the face of complexity and change, shifting your mind-set is the only way to not only cope but also make the journey more fun and successful. Here are to get you started.

1. ASK DIFFERENT QUESTIONS

The questions you usually ask will get you the sort of answers you usually get, which is not so helpful when you need new ideas. For a twist, try asking a new question. Most of us naturally ask questions that narrow and push to a solution. In complexity, being open to different possibilities is key. In a situation with lots of moving parts, narrowing is too likely to leave you attached to a solution that used to be reasonable but is not anymore. Different questions open you up to new possibilities and create a more flexible, agile mind-set.

2. ACCEPT MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES

We often think we have taken a wide variety of perspectives into consideration when really we have mostly just asked the people whose ideas we already knew about. When you are dealing with a complex situation, each person’s perspective is too small–and a group that is aligned with a single perspective is collectively missing important pieces. We need to get out of our own way. You can do this by seeking out perspectives that are different and not trying to convince anyone (especially ourselves) that we are right. You can tell you are not taking someone’s perspective into consideration if you think of him as a moron or not getting it, this means there is no way to learn from what his perspective might teach you.

3. EXPERIMENT AND LEARN

When it’s time to act, complexity calls for a series of safe-to-fail experiments–little bets that we can use to nudge the system in the desired direction. Instead of picking a final destination and trying to close the gaps, try finding places for experimentation and learning. For example, if you decide there’s something not quite right about your culture, avoid the typical solution of measuring the culture and then rolling out a culture change program. Instead, look for unexpected places where the culture is trending in a better direction and design little experiments to see if you can encourage some of those trends elsewhere. The experiments should be small, inexpensive, and most importantly they should be things you can learn from.

Thriving in complexity requires a whole new way of looking at the world and acting within it. But as you shift your mind-set, amazing thing happens. You don’t just get better at dealing with complex situations, you actually get to enjoy the complexities and use them to your advantage. And in a world that gets more complex all the time, that’s a massive benefit.

In the end, what's important is to realize that globalization itself is neither good nor bad. It just depends how the people deal with all the new possibilities in the future.