GLOBAL TILT:

A DEFINITION

global tilt (′glō-bəl tilt) 1. The shift in business and economic power from countries of the North to those below the thirty-first parallel; 2. the greatest change in business history; 3. a call for leaders to abandon old mind-sets, rules of thumb, and assumptions about the North and South and the relationship between the two; 4. the result of unstoppable forces, including the unleashed energies of the South, demographic shifts, the volatile global financial system, and digitization; 5. the opening of mega-opportunities for those who can handle complexity, speed, volatility, and uncertainty; 6. the spur to radical changes in strategic thinking, leadership, and the organization’s social system.