Editor’s note: This article first appeared early April on the blog of Travelport, which connects buyers and sellers through its distribution systems and technology solutions for the $9 trillion global travel industry. The U.K.-based company employs hundreds of people in Atlanta, where it operates an Americas headquarters in Cobb County and a data center in Hapeville. While its business ahas […]
Swedish Chamber Selects New Board Members, Hosts Online Networking
Toward the end of March, the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia named three new members to its board of directors, growing its leadership at a time of uncertainty. The chamber has continued hosting virtual networking sessions and encouraging interactions via LinkedIn during the coronavirus pandemic, just after postponing a spring innovation series highlighting Swedish […]
Syrup and Ships: Brazil, Canada Trade Leads Show Demand for Georgia-Made Products
The Georgia Department of Economic Development has released new trade leads showing demand for Georgia products in Brazil and Canada, both major export markets where the state has representatives helping local companies make sales inroads. The Brazilian leads focus on food products: olive oil, microwave popcorn, bubble gum, maple and other syrups and vegetable milk, […]
Books 2019: Building a Healthy Organization to Recruit and Retain Workers
Book: The Advantage Author: Patrick Lencioni Review by: Nick Masino, President and CEO, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s business fables —The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Temptations of a CEO and Death by Meeting. I’ve also had the great fortune seeing him speak live at Lead2Lead and […]
Books 2019: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About Humanity Before History
Book: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Author: David Reich Reviewed by: Glenn P. Hendrix, Chair, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP I’m fascinated by prehistory. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 200,000 years, but the earliest recorded history dates back only a […]
Books 2019: Restoring Technology’s Ability to Serve Human Aims
Book: Team Human Author: Douglas Rushkoff Review by: Lee Foster, Executive Director, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University Although I have been working in the performing arts industry for more than 20 years, my recent stint in the academic world at Georgia Tech demanded a return to my roots. I asked myself […]
Books 2019: Are the United States and China Destined for War?
Book: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Author: Graham Allison Review by: Bruce Allen, honorary consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Georgia As described by the eponymous Greek historian about the war between Athens and Sparta two and a half millennia ago, Thucydides’s trap is a situation where a rising […]
Books 2019: Understanding Latin America Through the Magic of Historical Fiction
Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Review by: Jorge Fernandez, former vice president of global commerce at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, consultant at Pendleton Group My best book of 2019 came from re-reading the whimsical landmark novel by the Colombian Literature Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which […]
Books 2019: The Dangers of Not Talking to Strangers
Book: Talking to Strangers:What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Author: Malcolm Gladwell Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta Like many, I grew up with my parents telling me not to talk to strangers. Now in my consulting, I work with leaders and […]
Books 2019: Colonialism or Philanthropy? Blurred Lines in King Leopold’s Congo
Book: King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Author: Adam Hochschild Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Professor of Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care After procrastinating for two decades, I finally read King Leopold’s Ghost […]
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