Today in Global Small Business: Creating Opportunities For Smaller Competitors to Enter the Market

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Big companies often grow complacent and fail to innovate, creating opportunities for smaller competitors to enter the market.
• Has globalization taken over?
• Globalization is not over – but you can read this anyway.
• Quote of the week:  "I think a winner has to be a master of preparation, they have to be a master of connection, extremely competitive and have really high standards for themselves and the people around them." – Maya Moore
• The Nokia Risk.
• Inside Saudi Arabia's coffee shop boom.