I know its been long since I've written, but you know its better late than never blog about such an intimidating topic!
I have been having this privilege multiple times for now to work with these groups of people, where we talk about the same thing everytime. Even though the discussions each time are very different, the way the discussions are framed and what issues are focused on are different, the issue has been the same - How to "Think Globally, Work Locally"?
BUT, I think, in midst of all these, we all seem to forget which matters the most "When?" and "What?" is Local or Global? We always seem to forget the fact "What You See Is What You Get". I've been recently involved in this one Localization project and also one global service deployment project, that work must be local, & focused on the global, solving the problem of "How to handle global and local content for global service? A question that has as many answers as intranets!"
Anyways, While i was busy in these Bonding globally, people failed to see if i was Building locally ;)
I have been made to beleive that because organizations are stronger at the local level and individuals are closer to the people who make the decisions, Unless the change is local, no global result is useful.
BUT on the other side I know that, Unless we have a global determination and global arrangements, we cannot have the desired achievement and results, which is vital for any interconnection between local and global.
Finally, I'd say, THINK global, WORK local BUT most importantly "ACT both" !!!
