Size Matters

Almost 20 years ago, thanks to an international business class, I learned that India -- with over 1 billion people at that time -- already had a middle class the size of the entire US population (400 million).  That stat has stayed me with and guided my thinking about globalization and the impact of large population nations leading our global economic growth.  What does this all have to do with personal growth?  A lot.  How we communicate, and the impact of our communications, can change the course of our destiny and determine our success in life relationships. 
Enjoy watching the "Oprah" of China.  The stats about the impact of micro blogging (IE our version of Twitter) are very interesting. 

Failure to Communicate

I think Linton Weeks has done an excellent job of explaining a major problem most of us are experiencing in every aspect of our daily lives in his NPR article What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.  I recommend you read the whole article...but these excerpts might give you a flavor for the article:

"It is the weirdest thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay connected — with anyone.

Should you shoot off an email? Tap out a text? Post a private message on Facebook? Write on their Facebook wall? Skype, poke, ping or conjure them up on a digital tin can phone?"

and...

"Invoking Marshall McLuhan's famous quote, "The medium is the message," Kamber says that in contemporary American culture, "the problem is not how to best contact someone for the sake of contact, but rather the problem is how to contact someone in a medium where the intended message can most accurately be conveyed."

Now that Linton has communicated the problem clearly, I wish he would communicate a solution.  

Thank you, Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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