Global Perspectives

We are fortunate to live in the Silicon Valley, a region that rich in diversity in people, in cultures, in economic backgrounds. In the best companies here, we celebrate the diversity in our workplace and leverage our differences to spawn innovation in technology and in our business processes and systems.

We can now reap the benefits of the acceleration of technological development and leverage the established software and hardware infrastructure to communicate quickly to others around the world via voice, computers and videos. Indeed, leveraging the existing communications infrastructure and establishing presences and partnerships worldwide unquestionably gives companies a competitive advantage and it has become a business requirement for success.

The successful global corporation celebrates the up-sides of our global world:

• A diverse, creative and distributed workforce
• Vendors, partners, customers, ambassadors and other supporters throughout the world
• Coordinated roles and responsibilities for all advocates leveraging strength of skills and resources and synergies between partners
• Optimal and sustainable output - tangible and intangible results
• and other benefits.

But it is a fine line between those global successes and the down-side of having global relationships:

• Diversity in the workforce creates factions and silos who compete rather than collaborate
• Confusion in roles and responsibilities where people feel threatened by other advocates working for the same cause
• Distributed workforce and partner base without the processes and systems and leadership in place to overcome time zone, cultural, management and other issues
• Compromised productivity for lack of leadership, coordination and cooperation
• Unsustainable successes due to combinations of the above and other challenges.

It is a given that any organization endeavoring a global presence needs to balance the up-sides and the down-sides and optimize for short-term and long-term results. Please join us for an event which explores 'Global Perspectives', which features

• Facilitator Catherine Zinn, Client Development Executive, DLA Piper http://www.dlapiper.com, who will facilitate a panel on the topic of Global Perspectives. An accomplished business professional and sales executive, Catherine focuses on developing new business and providing exceptional service to her clients throughout the world. As the facilitator, Catherine will share DLA's perspective on trends and directions in international business in the context of how it will impact the men and women leaders of today and tomorrow.
• Panelist Catherine Ngo, General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures http://www.StartupCV.com, who will present her perspective as an experienced finance and management executive. In her current role as a venture capitalist, Catherine focuses on investments in start-ups in Silicon Valley and China. Throughout her career as a finance and operations executive and venture capitalist, Catherine has generously supported the development of leaders.
• Panelist Michelle Messina, CEO of Explora International http://www.ExploraInternational.com, who will share her extensive experience consulting with companies both locally and internationally. Michelle takes pride in actively supporting the Silicon Valley business community as they develop business overseas and vice versa. She is optimistic about the synergistic business opportunities in our increasingly interconnected world.

To register for this event, visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=112599 by Thursday, August 10.

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