Global Culture

An article entitled East Meets West published recently at The National Interest online promised some insights into the current evolution of cultural transfer between China and America. Instead it turned out to be an exhaustive analysis of the coming of age of India as a decisive factor in balancing the power of China. [...]

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The recent shift in U.S. politics may have a lot of people assuming that policy changes will soon improve their situation, whether they hurt for the lack of jobs, stagnant wages, poor access to health care or education. The sad reality is that the government (any government) may not be able to affect [...]

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Wikipedia has a fairly complete guide to inappropriate social conduct classified by country. Whether trying to decide how to participate in a traditional ceremony or just eat a meal displaying proper manners, this guide should be quite useful for the global citizen.
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To understand where we’re going, we must understand where we come from.
Thanks to Mike Love and his Genealogy of Influence project, it is possible to visualize some of the most influential thinkers throughout history and the relationships among them. The touchgraph tool itself works as an interactive graph that rearranges thinkers as you explore [...]

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A recent exchange with Richa Govil from Infosys led me to a couple of posts on their blog: The War for Talent Heats Up and Talent Wars, cont’d…. Their blog provides an insight into globalization from the perspective of those on the other side of the equation, supplying the talent to the corporations [...]

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