THE ERA OF GLOBALITY IS HERE. ARE YOU READY?

GLOBALITY
Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
By Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling,
and Arindam K. Bhattacharya

In an age when you’re “competing with everyone from everywhere for everything,” it pays to test your grasp of the new global business reality.

Here’s a quiz, brought to you by the authors of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything (Business Plus/Grand Central Publishing) Do you have a have a high GQ (Globality Quotient)?
This quiz lets you test whether you’re in touch with the new era of globality – or whether you’re still mired in yesterday’s globalization concepts. Globality isn’t a new or different term for globalization; it’s what comes next. Globality involves the remarkable rise of companies based in rapidly developing economies that do business in new and often very different ways. They’re challenging established players, reshaping industries, and taking worldwide leadership positions in a number of categories.

1. As of April 2008, what percentage of major league baseball players were foreign born?

	8 percent
	16 percent
	28 percent
	32 percent

2. A typical, 100-person U.S. based startup will burn through approximately $20 million in its first year. How much does a similar Chinese startup spend?

	$31 million
	$20 million
	$10 million
	$2.5 million

3. By 2010, India and China together will graduate approximately how many science and engineering students?

	250,000
	500,000
	1.5 million
	4 million

4. Choose the correct order below of the total hours worked per year by white-collar workers in the following countries -- from highest to lowest:

	Poland, United States, Germany
	United States, Poland, Germany
	Poland, Germany, United States
	Germany, Poland, United States

5. Johnson Electric, the world's largest independent maker of micromotors, is based in:

6. Which company now owns the prestigious Jaguar and Land Rover lines of automobiles?

7. Which is world's largest producer of small commercial jets (up to 120 seats)?

8. Chinese baby goods maker Goodbaby innovates at the rate of one new product
development every __ hours

	12
	24
	36
	48

9. An upstart appliance manufacturer in Asia has designed a clothes washer for the Chinese market that also does what?

10. India-based Aravind Eye Care is so efficient, it still makes a profit even while:

	Training most of the country’s eye surgeons at no charge
	Using high-cost, state-of-the-art operating equipment and the most expensive drugs
	Providing complimentary meals for all patients and their families
	Performing three out of five cataract surgeries for free
	Hiring renowned international medical experts at their U.S./European salaries

11. India-based Bajaj Auto is the number-one seller of two-stroke motorbikes in which emerging market country/countries? Choose all that apply:

12. The largest acquisition by a Latin American company was made in what country:

	Dayton, OH
	Seoul, Korea
	Manheim, Germany
	Hong Kong, China
	Vancouver, Canada

	Cerberus Capital, USA
	Ford Motor, USA
	Tata Group, India
	M+M/Renault, France
	Mitsubishi Motors, Japan

	France
	India
	Russia
	Brazil
	Korea

	Removes wrinkles
	Steams rice
	Dry cleans silk
	Washes vegetables
	Heats the kitchen

	Sri Lanka
	Colombia
	Bangladesh
	Mexico
	Peru
	Egypt
	All of the above