>Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

The U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) owns and operates the Global Positioning System (GPS), including 24 satellites, each orbiting the earth every 12 hours, as the graphic above illustrates.

GPS, a navigational system, computes the position and velocity of things in a highly detailed, three dimensional way.

The GPS costs $400 million annually, and it is essential for our national defense.

Civilian GPS usage is increasing rapidly. For example, many newer cars and boats have GPS navigation systems to show where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there.

There are hand held GPS devices, too, priced around 100 dollars.

Let’s apply this GPS principle—positioning--to your business.

How broad is your present market positioning? Local, regional, national, international or global?

What are your Business Plan goals? In what direction, and at what velocity, are you moving toward attaining your 21st Century business goals? And how are you getting there (strategies and tactics)?

In most cases, your business should be moving toward a global position.

Why limit your business to a neighborhood, town or city, region or just one nation? In the 21st Century, that’s neither necessary nor desirable.

Everything moves and happens much faster in the 21st Century. Now is not a time for dithering slowpokes, indecisively whiny people, and those clinging to, and living in, the past (specifically, the 20th Century).

Brian Tracy says that knowledge doubles and triples every two to three years. If you don't keep on learning, you will know less and less of total available knowledge as each new day dawns.

"The global society demands the latest information anytime, anywhere, using any device. Mobility is the key," says Stratton Sclavos, CEO, VeriSign.

Yet many snoozing people ignorantly and erroneously claim that everything is just the same as 100 years ago, preferring just to market locally, as they always have done.

What a shame when tradition, provincialism and/or xenophobia (fear of foreigners), and myopia limit or impede great global business possibilities.

In the book "The Lexus & The Lemon Tree," the author, Thomas L. Freidman, recalls being in Japan, attending a major corporate event and riding on a new high speed train.

While riding on the train, he read a newspaper, which reported on a small incident in an ages old, petty feud between Palestians and Israelis over ownership of just one lemon tree.

Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

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Let’s apply this GPS principle—positioning--to your business.

How broad is your present market positioning? Local, regional, national, international or global?

What are your Business Plan goals? In what direction, and at what velocity, are you moving toward attaining your 21st Century business goals? And how are you getting there (strategies and tactics)?

In most cases, your business should be moving toward a global position.

Why limit your business to a neighborhood, town or city, region or just one nation? In the 21st Century, that’s neither necessary nor desirable.

Everything moves and happens much faster in the 21st Century. Now is not a time for dithering slowpokes, indecisively whiny people, and those clinging to, and living in, the past (specifically, the 20th Century).

Brian Tracy says that knowledge doubles and triples every two to three years. If you don't keep on learning, you will know less and less of total available knowledge as each new day dawns.

"The global society demands the latest information anytime, anywhere, using any device. Mobility is the key," says Stratton Sclavos, CEO, VeriSign.

Yet many snoozing people ignorantly and erroneously claim that everything is just the same as 100 years ago, preferring just to market locally, as they always have done.

What a shame when tradition, provincialism and/or xenophobia (fear of foreigners), and myopia limit or impede great global business possibilities.

In the book "The Lexus & The Lemon Tree," the author, Thomas L. Freidman, recalls being in Japan, attending a major corporate event and riding on a new high speed train.

While riding on the train, he read a newspaper, which reported on a small incident in an ages old, petty feud between Palestians and Israelis over ownership of just one lemon tree.

Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

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Everything moves and happens much faster in the 21st Century. Now is not a time for dithering slowpokes, indecisively whiny people, and those clinging to, and living in, the past (specifically, the 20th Century).

Brian Tracy says that knowledge doubles and triples every two to three years. If you don't keep on learning, you will know less and less of total available knowledge as each new day dawns.

"The global society demands the latest information anytime, anywhere, using any device. Mobility is the key," says Stratton Sclavos, CEO, VeriSign.

Yet many snoozing people ignorantly and erroneously claim that everything is just the same as 100 years ago, preferring just to market locally, as they always have done.

What a shame when tradition, provincialism and/or xenophobia (fear of foreigners), and myopia limit or impede great global business possibilities.

In the book "The Lexus & The Lemon Tree," the author, Thomas L. Freidman, recalls being in Japan, attending a major corporate event and riding on a new high speed train.

While riding on the train, he read a newspaper, which reported on a small incident in an ages old, petty feud between Palestians and Israelis over ownership of just one lemon tree.

Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

hat everything is just the same as 100 years ago, preferring just to market locally, as they always have done.

What a shame when tradition, provincialism and/or xenophobia (fear of foreigners), and myopia limit or impede great global business possibilities.

In the book "The Lexus & The Lemon Tree," the author, Thomas L. Freidman, recalls being in Japan, attending a major corporate event and riding on a new high speed train.

While riding on the train, he read a newspaper, which reported on a small incident in an ages old, petty feud between Palestians and Israelis over ownership of just one lemon tree.

Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

>Absurdly enough, we live in a world where some invest their time and talent in the high quality, highly automated, products--while others waste their time in petty, unresolved squabbles over a single tree.

Position your business globally. "Think Big. Live Large," says "The Donald" (Trump).

After years of research, author Steve R. Covey wrote "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness."

The 8th Habit doesn't replace his book, "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People." Rather, it takes people already proficient and effective in all seven habits to their next level of excellence, which is greatness.

While the 20th Century required lots of physical work, 21st Century work provides increased opportunity to gain long term fulfillment, to experience passion, to contribute to society, and to develop higher levels of human genius as a "Knowledge Worker."

This requires a "new mindset and a new skills-set," Covey explains.

In the 8th Habit, you discover why you're here on planet earth, how to express this "why" as your personal passion, "finding your voice while inspiring others to find theirs," as Covey describes it.

In the 20th Century, only 20 to 30% of value added goods and services came from knowledge work.

But in the 21st Century, 70 to 90% of value added goods and services come from knowledge work, which unleashes and utilizes human potential.

The choice here is yours. Move your mind into the 21st Century and succeed or stay stuck in the 20th Century and fail in business.

Determine your business global position now--and where you will take it in the next three years. Rewrite your plans to capitalize on 21st Century opportunities worldwide.

Don't leave yourself behind in the previous (20th) Century.

Remember the movie "Kate & Leopold?" Leopold was a royal person from another era, unable to comprehend modern times. He fell in love with Kate, and they went back in time together, living happily ever after in the past.

That kind of stuff happens only in the movies. You don't get the option of living in the past. You can't return there, as Kate & Leopold did.

Your only choice is to position yourself globally into the future.