By The Editors The conclusion of the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 — the world today is less globally connected than it was in 2007 — does not come as a surprise. Pankaj Ghemawat (author of World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It, winner of the Thinkers 50 Book Award for the best business book published in 2010-2011) has repeatedly shown, with brilliance and with hard data, that the world is far less connected than it appears to be. According to Pankaj Ghemawat, the real world is roughly only 10 to 25 percent globalized. Most activities that could take place either across or within national borders are still domestic. In addition, the trend is…