Would the Real Globalization Challenges Please Stand Up?

Question: What are the biggest challenges to globalization according to CEOs? Surely they must be the bogeymen that we’re used to hearing about in the popular press, such as terrorism, corruption, unfair currency policies, and intellectual piracy, no?

Incredibly, no.

According to Price Waterhouse Cooper’s 9th annual Global CEO Survey, the weightiest challenges to globalization are wielded exclusively by politicians: over-regulation and protectionism.