PART II
PLAYING THE GAME
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
—Albert Einstein
Most people are familiar with the expression “six degrees of separation.” Six degrees popularly conveys the theory that we are all only six degrees, or six relationships, away from anybody else. (We’ve heard it said jokingly within the Black community that our degrees of separation are two!) Regardless of the exact number, we believe it is intuitively obvious to conclude that our degree of separation is going down as time progresses. So, despite the fact there are 6.7 billion people on planet Earth, “it’s a small world after all,” as the old children’s song suggests.
As a result of globalization, the proliferation ...
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