In his 2005 book on globalization, Thomas Friedman famously declared the world flat. For many large firms, the author’s theory was already fact then, and it may be even more relevant now. Clients today have access to virtually any firm in the world; with the proper resources, any firm can work anywhere. As a result, the world feels undeniably small. “We all find that everybody is everywhere nowadays,” says Richard Olcott, a partner at Ennead (formerly Polshek Partnership), a 190-person firm with offices in New York and Shanghai. “You can be in Kansas somewhere, turn around, and Norman Foster is standing right behind you. Everywhere we go, we see a lot of the same faces.”
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