Synopsis This book by the well-known management guru, Kenichi Ohmae is meant to help us get a sense of how the global economy works. Based on his firsthand experiences while travelling across the world, Ohmae tries to explain how the world has changed in the past two decades. The traditional principles held sacred in the past, do not apply today. In particular, Ohmae focuses on the role of information technology and the rise of region states, a theme for which the author is well known.