Global Culture

Dr. Clotaire Rapaille uses a combination of phychiatry, physchology and cultural anthropology to provide powerful tools to large corporations trying to understand how to penetrate the minds of their consumers. His approach, Archetype Discovery, allows organizations understand why a certain group of people do what they do, whether the research is related to a [...]

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Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies released their report Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power. The one fact that got my attention was that as of 2000, of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are corporations and 49 are countries. With General Motors, Wal-Mart, [...]

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The Daily Telegraph published an open letter signed by more than 100 leading doctors, academics and other intellectuals blaming junk food, marketing, over-competitive schooling and electronic entertainment for seriously affecting the development of young children.
In my opinion, the abundance of opportunities for parents in privileged countries is seriously affecting the dynamic of the relationship with [...]

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According to Wikipedia, the original slogan “Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest” was coined by Robert Owen early in the XIX century. The industrial revolution would only provide the appropriate climate for the Eight-hour day movement to become the central demand of the labour movement across the world. Labour Day [...]

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Thanks to EM from “Mind Unbound” for her inspired satire of a certain kind of Declaration that could very well have been the manifest that lawyers wrote when ideating the modern concept of a Corporation:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that in the pursuit of happiness we shall all compete against each other for [...]

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Via the Outsourcing Blog I’m learning about the total volume of outsourcing deals currently in place, adding to $118bn per year. Any fears about jobs being shifted to cheaper countries like India and China are well founded. But building on the arguments of my previous post, I would like to make an observation [...]

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According to Ellen Tomson from Pioneer Press, “living without a TV is the right program”, or at least that’s what she has concluded while following the story of a family that decided to shutdown the signal, for good. Although the article mentions some of the undeniable influence of mass media on the rise of [...]

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