Archives for “Globalization”
Tweet Wow, I think I’m guilty of this. And I’m not sure I can change either. I read “Why Muslims are still mad at America” by Steven Kull on CNN and I can’t say that I think the Muslim perception of the American narrative is incorrect. Speaking for myself, I do view freedom and civil [...]
Tweet I don’t think we are even close to fully understanding the Nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan. Just read this on CNN: Radiation in water rushing into sea tests millions of times over limit Tokyo (CNN) — Another attempt by Japanese officials to stop the leaking of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor into [...]
Tweet Worth a read. A revolution against Neoliberalism Guaranteeing the sanctity of markets is supposed to be the limit of legitimate state functions, and state interventions should always be subordinate to markets. All human behavior, and not just the production of goods and services, can be reduced to market transactions. And the application of utopian [...]
Tweet Interesting to me that the movie V for Vendetta was the motivation for this and this hero both. Synopsis: Tells the story of Evey Hammond and her unlikely but instrumental part in bringing down the fascist government that has taken control of a futuristic Great Britain. Saved from a life-and-death situation by a man [...]
Tweet The false axiom “work harder not smarter” came up in conversation today. Which reminded me of this paragraph I did on the book Rework called When to Apply Business Advice: Sometimes advice is populist, but there is a logical flaw. A company who follows the infamous “work smarter not harder” quickly falls to a [...]
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Tweet “I once watched a highly intelligent Pueblo Indian engaged in intercultural education programs struggle and sweat to put into words a problem he and his people were having to cope with. Whenever a white man is put down in the middle of a pueblo, the Indians must cope with his narcissism as expressed by [...]
Tweet Yali’s famous question from the book Guns, Germs, and Steel: “All of those things must have been on Yali’s mind when, with yet another penetrating glance of his flashing eyes, he asked me, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people [...]
Tweet It is a common mantra in marketing that our brands live in the mind of the consumer. A recent television commercial for a major software brand quotes the Chief Marketing Officer of a major beverage brand saying “Our brands are owned by the consumers who love them.” Or as the Social Customer blog quotes: [...]