It's as simple as that," he concluded, to measured applause from the assembled business leaders.
There is no point acquiring a global network of randomly assembled business students if you just want to work in your home town.
In February, he stood before the annual meeting of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, showed the assembled business executives a chart, and demolished the United States' entire approach to education.
Heading into the meeting, Mr. Obama told reporters that he was hoping to glean some ideas from the assembled business leaders on ways to help spur economic growth.
Sharon Stone stood up at the World Economic Forum and after pledging $10,000 of her Hollywood fortune for mosquito nets in Africa challenged the assembled business leaders to match her generosity.
"Spain is becoming a major player in the global investment scene," he told the assembled business leaders, praising the country's economic growth, which stands in contrast to its neighbors' sluggish performances.
It was in January, a few short weeks after a series of bloody attacks in Paris, that he told 2,000 assembled business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to unite in a global campaign against terrorism.
At one of CGI's many discussion sessions, Luis C. de Baca, Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. State Department, told the assembled business, government and philanthropic leaders that collectively, we are still working on the project started by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Rather, composing a football team is like assembling a business.
When people think about company building, they often think about high-performing management teams and hard-charging founder-CEOs who are assembling the business brick by brick.
