CoolGlobalBiz.com is a business blog by former USA Today reporter Edward Iwata and featured on GlobalPost.com (About and Commerce) and Alltop.com (Economics). CoolGlobalBiz.com explores the nexus of business and culture, the cross-border fusion of the U.S. and world economies. Kingdoms rise and fall, cycles come and go, but the global economy still reigns. Companies evolve as borders dissolve. Markets merge, cultures and currencies converge. You say euro, I say peso / You say dinar, I say dollar. Cross-cultural executives and entrepreneurs are the mad innovators, the new arbiters of cool, and they're at the vanguard of the new business diversity, global-style. This transcends the Shakira-zation of the world, the ethnic flava of the month.
Every few generations, we're rocked by economic and cultural upheaval, from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. Now we're at the cusp of another eye-popping epoch, an era of global innovation, integration and institutional change -- a cultural and money mashup unlike anything we've seen. The seasons are turning, turning. This ain't your Daddy's economy. The world: curved or flat? No matter, the convergence of business and culture won't wane. For better and worse, the new global order has arrived.
