ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on articulating the issues through an overall lens called sustainable globalization. Sustainable globalization presents at once the greatest challenge – and the greatest opportunity – of our lifetime. Sustainable globalization represents a breakthrough and a fundamental transformation in how people approach doing business in a global world in the 21st century. The world's largest enterprises, the Global 1000, have the economic power to exert enormous influence over their own sustainable future as well as that of others. Sustainable globalization requires a number of profound and critical shifts in the thinking and behavior of global corporations. Every organization needs to ask questions and assess where they are in relation to the several lenses for sustainable globalization. Given the current momentum surrounding the need for more sustainable solutions, and the directions that are being proposed, there is reason for optimism.
