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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Sidney Okolo is a professor, mentor, consultant, and strategist. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Management and Leadership, MAEd in Adult Education and Training, and MS in Agribusiness Management. He has specialization in General Business, Online Education, and Mechanized Agriculture. He is affiliated to several universities, the Managing Director of International Business Associates, a management consulting firm, and President of Virtual Classrooms Institute, an educational training and development organization involves in online learning. In addition to his work in the corporate environment, Dr. Okolo engages in all aspects of learning, knowledge, organization and human change. His focus is on ... ]]></description>
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<title>Understanding International Business: The Environment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To understand international business is to understand the global business environment, global competition, free trade, and the imperative quality. All these contribute to business growth and job creation. Under business environments are the legal and economic environment, and technological environment.]]></description>
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<title>Understanding Economic and Political Systems Across Borders</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:13:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your business investment is affected by the type of political system in the country you wish to invest or explore. Before you decide in which country to do business with, you first need to examine the type of economic and political system it operates in. The three major political systems are (1) Capitalism, (2) Communism, and (3) Socialism. Work operations and habits are affected by each system, and your investment will also be affected in several ways that you may or may not like.]]></description>
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<title>Why Burma Is Not a Viable Country for Investment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Burma's primary resource is agriculture. It has almost 250 edible and life sustainable trees, but only 20 percent of them have been explored. Teak is an important resource for the country, and Burma plays an international role in the supply of this product. Burma is also rich in natural gas, mineral resources such as petroleum, rubies, and jade. The land holds copper, zinc, tin, limestone, marble, coal, antimony, tungsten, and lead. Despite all these natural and important resources which would attract investment, the government leadership structure makes it difficult to invest in the country.]]></description>
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<title>Things to Consider Before Investing in African Countries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are fifty-five countries in the continent of Africa. Out of these fifty-five countries are twelve countries that are categorized as semi-developed countries due to their middle-income economies. The rest of the forty-three countries are either underdeveloped or still developing.]]></description>
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<title>How to Untangle Yourself From a Web of Losers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What you become in life says everything about your social DNA. It reflects on who you are; your association, the environment in which you breathe and were raised. Individuals tend to become who they associate themselves with, think like them, behave like them, and attain the same height or level of success or failure as them. This social class tells who individuals are by the kind of friends they keep.]]></description>
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<title>Ways of Managing International Risks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Managing international risks is not a one size fits all approach concept. Countries are different due to differences in culture, values, beliefs, religion, politics, and environments are also different. Few third world countries are underdeveloped and most are still developing.]]></description>
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<title>Learning to Be Job Creative</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do we quit seeking for employment because economy is bad, unemployment is high, there are no jobs in our area of interest, or because we are tired of looking for jobs that do not exist? This is a time to be creative and think of individual passion. Individuals who resort to their passion do very well because they do what they like.]]></description>
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<title>Increasing Job Opportunities Through Classroom Technology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Integration of technology in our classrooms is beneficial and easily affordable in developed countries while underdeveloped and developing countries are limited in resources in this area. Hence, they have difficulty understanding the pros and cons of a lack of technology in the classrooms.]]></description>
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<title>Risks in International Business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just as there are reasons to get into global markets, and benefits from global markets, there are also risks involved in locating companies in certain countries. Each country may have its potentials; it also has its woes that are associated with doing business with major companies.]]></description>
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<title>Doing Business Across Cultures and Borders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Doing business across cultures and borders begin by good negotiation, and individuals with good management skills and negotiating abilities. Managers cannot negotiate productively in an international marketplace if they do not possess important negotiating abilities and skills. Managers cannot negotiate successfully if they neglect these countries' cultures, beliefs, and rituals. The differences in cultures, beliefs, and rituals create difficulties in the process of effective negotiation.]]></description>
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<title>Reasons for Globalization</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most companies move their business operations to foreign countries by going global. They take their business overseas for different reasons. These companies adopt the reactive or defensive approach to stay ahead of the competition. A few of them take the proactive or aggressive approach to accomplish the same purpose. A majority of them choose to adopt both approaches to avoid a decrease in their competition.]]></description>
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<title>Success Equals Attitude</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Take A Position. Bad attitude breeds failure, rather than success, and drives an individual's behavior. It is attributed to ignorance, and as such demands attitude adjustment or modification. While most people foolishly and arrogantly think that they are smart, little do they realize that they are making mockery and at the same time belittling themselves through bad attitude and behavior.]]></description>
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<title>Benefits From Globalization</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The things that come to many minds when globalization is mentioned are loss of United States' jobs, NAFTA, CAFTA, APEC, outsourcing, and low-wages. The perception to most people is that if outsourcing is bad, then globalization must be bad.]]></description>
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<title>Exploitation Of Poorer People In Developing Countries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The argument is that poorer people in the developing countries are being exploited by organizations from developed countries. They alleged that these organizations pay fewer wage to these workers, and force them to work more hours. The officials that are leading these charges have not explored the original situation of these people in order to determine whether these people are better or worse off with these organizations prior to them entering the global market.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Tips For Potential Entrepreneurs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Success is complementary to positive thinking. In order to understand that, you need to know how the human capital works in a competitive labor market. Learn how demand, supply, and wage rate affect the high-skilled and low-skilled market.]]></description>
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<title>Success Depends on Individual Attributes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:48:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Employers do not hire individuals because they like them, they hire them because they know that they can do the job. They look for individuals, who can come in and tell them what they do not know. They are not willing to pay anyone to come in and tell them what they already know. They only hire individuals as part of their resources in order to produce and sell goods and services, and increase their market share in order to increase their profits.]]></description>
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<title>Jobs Retraining for a Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unemployment leads to retraining. Learning is a continuous process, and no one is too old to acquire job retraining since it is just learning new and different skills from what you have originally learned.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq or United States' Economy? - It's Your Choice</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:51:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Iraq war has eaten into the fabric of United States economy. The economy is fragile and sitting on a pedestal. It is time that United States decides whether the war is worth risking lives and sacrificing the economy of the country.]]></description>
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<title>Athletes Falling From Grace</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Professional athletes have become synonymous to steroids, misconduct, misbehavior, and that has led to their fall from grace. Majority of the time, they violate the laws of the land and end up paying for them. This is seen in both on- and off-court environment.]]></description>
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<title>Maximize Profit While Minimizing Costs</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:56:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Qualitative and quantitative steps in assessing organization for development. The bottom line is to minimize costs, maximize profit, maximize efficiency, and increase productivity.]]></description>
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<title>Corruption and Venality in a Third World</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:01:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Developing Countries have consistently abused funds when not monitored by donor countries. Most of these donor countries do not do follow-ups in the projects in which they invested their funds. At the end, the majority of the citizens suffer because of the actions of the few leaders.]]></description>
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<title>A Common Sense Economic and Market Structure Model for Developing Countries</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:20:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For more than thirty years developing countries' economic problems have created major financial crises in the international community. Developing countries have remained so due to their low-income economies.]]></description>
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