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Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Good points Greg. Keeping open and having a curious and exploratory mindset is helpful.
I mentioned above, "But while global trade produced great prosperity during this era, in many regions it also led to great cruelty (the exploitation of indigenous peoples, for example)." I've been studying innovation and major breakthroughs throughout history. Just like innovation, globalization can be very disruptive too. Although unintentional, this can cause resistance and lead to conflicts and unfortunate suffering within indigenous communities. I guess all progress has growing pains.