Ram Charan — Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Europe, and Japan in the Northern hemisphere to China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries mostly in the Southern hemisphere. The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it.

Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. Along with a newly enriched investment class, business leaders in the South are on the move, tapping into the readily available funding and expertise they need to grow, and scaling up fast to grab once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. The empires they are building could rival those created in the nineteenth-century by the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller.

Harvard Business Review — HBR Blog Network
Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt
Ram Charan