????最近，在一個大型商業會議上（按規定我不能具名引用與會者的言論），我很驚訝地聽到一位著名的首席執行官不經意間說到：“紐約仍然是世界的中心”。這位首席執行官并不是美國人（他來自英國），而且每次我見到他時，他要么準備去中國，要么剛從中國回來，所以當聽到他說紐約市世界的中心之后，我就在想，他說得是否有道理呢？

????幾天后，我接到了密歇根大學羅斯商學院（Ross School of Business）教授、知名領導力學者諾爾?迪奇的電話，他說將會帶領15位全球MBA課程項目的學生到紐約市參訪兩天。這些學生大多是來自海外，大多數是亞洲人?！爱斘覇査麄冇卸嗌偃嗽浫ミ^紐約時，只有兩三個人舉手，”他說?！拔艺f‘什么？如果你連全球金融中心都沒去過，怎么能理解商業世界？那我們就去紐約看看！’”

????這些人說得是否有道理呢？一般人當然認為，全球經濟、知識、社交和文化的中心已經不可避免地向東方轉移，而老邁的紐約卻在這個過程中逐漸落伍。不過，依然有充分的證據證明，紐約的中心地位無可撼動，原因如下：

????- 紐約可以說依然是全球頂級的金融中心。在安然（Enron）和世通公司（WorldCom）爆出丑聞之后，薩班斯-奧克斯利法案（Sarbanes-Oxley）和其他一系列嚴厲的監管措施相繼出臺，令許多公司轉投其他資本市場，特別是倫敦。但是如今，倫敦和歐盟也開始針對上市公司施行大量的監管法規，其中還包括限制銀行家分紅的提案，結果讓紐約再次充滿吸引力。

????- 毫無疑問，紐約還是全球的媒體中心。全球十大傳媒公司中的五家都位于紐約，分別是哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS）、新聞集團（News Corp）、時代華納（Time Warner）、21世紀?？怂梗?1st Century Fox）以及維亞康姆集團（Viacom）。除紐約外，全球沒有一座城市擁有超過一家“全球十大”傳媒公司。

????當一座城市中云集了全球資本和媒體產業的總部時，或許它就真的是全球的中心。因此，恭喜紐約！自二戰結束后的68年來，它一直頭頂著“全球中心”的桂冠。但問題是，這頂桂冠還能保持多久？我對此沒有把握。前面提到的那位著名的首席執行官將紐約稱為全球中心的時候，他正身處新加坡。全球經濟中心東移的趨勢雖充滿波折，但卻不會停止。（財富中文網）

????譯者：唐昕昕

????At a big business conference recently -- where the rules forbade my quoting participants by name -- I was surprised to hear a famous CEO refer in passing to "New York City, which is still the center of the world." The CEO isn't American (he's English), and whenever I see him he's always just coming from or going to China. And he thinks New York is the center of the world. I wondered, Could he be right?

????A few days later I got a call from Noel Tichy, the well-known leadership expert and professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, to say he was bringing 15 global MBA students -- all of them from outside the U.S., most of them Asian -- to the city for two days. "I asked how many of them had been to New York, and only two or three of them raised their hands," he explained. "I said, 'Come on. How can you understand global business if you've never been to the world's financial center? We're going!'"

????So are these guys right? The conventional view is of course that the global centers of gravity -- economic, intellectual, social, cultural -- are shifting unstoppably east, and little old New York is receding to the middle of the pack. Yet a case can still be made for New York's primacy, as follows:

????-It is arguably still the preeminent financial center. Its claim was in danger after the scandals of the Enron/WorldCom era prompted Sarbanes-Oxley and other heavy-handed regulations, which drove many companies to capital markets elsewhere, especially London. But now London and the EU have heaped mountains of regulation onto firms, including proposed limits on bankers' bonuses, and New York looks a lot more alluring once again.

????-It is unquestionably the global media capital. Of the world's 10 biggest media companies, five -- CBS (CBS), News Corp. (NWSA), Time Warner (TWX), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Viacom (VIA) -- are based in New York. No other city has more than one.

????Money and media -- when a city is world headquarters for those two sectors of today's economy, maybe it really is the center of the world. So all hail New York! It has held the title for, let's say, 68 years (since the end of World War II). But for how much longer? Five years? I wouldn't bet on it. The famous CEO who called New York the center of the world made his remark in Singapore. That eastward trend may surge and pause, but it isn't stopping.