The Opportunity Clinic - 28 Tactics for Managing your Business in a Recession Part 14 of 28 Which country is the most opportunity savvy in this recession?

Most politicians and economists now all agree that the world is in the throws of a total synchronous recession, if not depression. But which countries are the most resilient and get the fact that change and chaos produces opportunites?

 

Using the number of English language media stories about spotting or designing opportunities in a recession as a very crude proxy indicator, I started looking at several free and paid databases for public stories concerning the recession and opportunity recognition.

 

Which country is the most Opportunity Savvy in this recession? Who seems to be on top?

1)       The UK

2)       The USA

3)       India

4)       Canada

5)       China

The first two results many be biased because the recession /depression is far more advance in these top two countries, and the fact that I was just looking at the English language press only, but if media coverage is a reflection of societal mindsets, then the UK seems to be way ahead as a very opportunity savvy nation-their business people get it.

 

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