Technological, social and economic advancements of the past two decades have propelled us into a global world - a world where business executives in Boise, Idaho can teleconference with business executives in Beijing, China as if they were sitting across the table from each other. With the rapid, inexpensive transmission of data available to us, businesses can leverage the time zone difference with India to achieve 24-hour workdays. And those opportunities are only the beginning of what services globalization offers.

Some organizations have leveraged those opportunities successfully. Most have not. Not surprisingly, the companies that are successful globalizers engage in similar practices - practices which other companies should be able to emulate. The book discusse these seven secrets that distinguish the leading adopters from the laggards.