Employees must be able to read and make sense of instruction manuals, and to contribute critical and imaginative ideas to corporate life. Make use of new technologies in both administration and production. Activities should be coordinated along with a local authority, who will then serve as spokesperson for the group in negotiations. In practice, these suggestions apply to all business carried out under good management. This is the way.
Efficiency is the key to all the changes brought about by globalization.
The next major development will be at the beginning of April. That is when the Finance Ministers of the 34 countries involved in the negotiations for setting up the FTAA will meet in Buenos Aires in order to produce a first draft of the accord, setting out how a free trade area can be established. There is much at stake. That makes it a zone with more commercial activity than other blocks around the world, such as Western Europe and Western Asia. When you add together all these North and South American economies you end up with some staggering figures, but it is crucially important to remember that the region consists of unequal economies, and unequal societies which, when looked at closely, are even more complex than is sometimes thought.