James Drogan

Through the kindness of a SUNY Maritime graduate student, Yanjie Shi, I attended a speech yesterday by Ambassador Rice.  The transcript of the talk, as delivered, can be found here.

Ambassador Rice is a very impressive speaker and seemed to me to have a great grasp of all the salient facts and the manner in which they interact.  I underscore the interaction because I think too few of our elected officials, self-proclaimed pundits, and main stream media manufacturers really understand and discuss the complex, interrelated nature of the world.

Complexity in global social, economic, and political systems presents opportunities and threats to commercial enterprises that operate within, and thus must respond to, these systems.  The student of today is virtually obligated to understand the cross currents affecting world commerce if they are to be of value to the stakeholders of the firms they join after graduation.