Are you getting what you want?
Business Owners from 25 countries together for 24 hours, virtually. Not too long ago that was inconceivable. Today it’s the norm. I remember asking the president of an international organization if they will consider virtual meetings as part of their service offering. This was in January 2019. His answer was a confident “No”. Just more than a year later, March 2020, their service offering included virtual meetings. They did it, literally, overnight.
Yesterday we had a 24-hour virtual summit of TAB Business Owners. 25 countries participated from almost all time zones, from Australia around the globe to Hawaii.
Much has been said about the good and bad of globalisation – people doing business with people all over the world.
In recent years politicians got involved – and that is most of the time BAD – focusing on domestic economies; protection of borders, keeping out people, protecting own industries, etc.
What these politicians seem to either not know, or choose to outright ignore, is that globalisation has been around since commerce started more than 10 000 years ago.
Looking for the votes of the uninformed, and all of us are uninformed in many things, politicians will promise uninformed people what is impossible for governments to do – economic growth, and job creation, by keeping others out.
Only businesses can create economic growth and jobs. The responsibility of governments is to create an environment where people can start and build businesses, and trade with whomever they want.
Why with whomever they want? Because that’s how mankind has learned for thousands of years. We learn from each other. The global education systems (with all its challenges) understand this – we go somewhere else to learn what we don’t know; not to confirm what we think we know.
Every day I commit to at least 90-minutes of learning. Yesterday I got to learn for almost a full day.
25 countries, hundreds of industries, different economic cycles, different and similar challenges, different and similar opportunities.
My motto is “Get what you want. Don’t settle for what you’ve become used to”.
We need others to make us aware of what we’ve become used to, and the TAB Community does exactly this, and much more.
Are you getting what you want?
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