Working Globesmart: Twelve People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders Review

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Working Globesmart: Twelve People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders ReviewThis book clarifies common pitfalls in interacting with foreign counterparts and offers solutions structured around twelve people skills: establishing credibility; giving and receiving feedback; obtaining information; evaluating people; building global teamwork; training and development; selling; negotiating; strategic planning; transferring knowledge; innovating; and managing change. The book is based on inputs from experienced country and regional experts. It includes numerous examples, charts, tables and appendixes, as well as chapter summaries and review questions. A top-notch book, bountiful in substance, it will help you build bridges over cultural divides.Working Globesmart: Twelve People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders Overview

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The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream Review

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The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream ReviewJohn Zogby is by far one of the most respected and prolific pollsters and chroniclers of social changes and sensibilities of our time.
In his new book "The Way We'll Be" he says that people want more than ever to be treated as individuals. He says they also want variety in the products they purchase. "They want choice, not imposition, and they are demanding to be treated as individuals," he says. I'm not sure this in and of itself is real news. But if you market to other people, it's certainly something you should know and understand. Only when you understand what people want can you successfully sell to them.
He also says that people are willing to settle for less. "Narrowing limits", he calls this attitude.
The one problem I found with the book was that the author seems to deal mostly about the current state of things and not as much about the future as you would expect. Of course, one call tell a lot about the future by the past.
What I found useful about the book is that it tells us about the consumer and the people we deal with daily. As a marketer, this information is valuable. Indeed, it is priceless. Just as politicians needs to know what motivates people, those who sell to people need to know their motivations as well.
While the book fails to tell us exactly what we might expect in the future (if that were even possible) in the way Alvin Toffler did, it is certainly a worthwhile book and one that I highly recommend.
- Susanna K. Hutcheson
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Essentials of Cultural Anthropology Review

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Essentials of Cultural Anthropology ReviewHaving read several of the brief or essentials cultural anthropology textbooks, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Yes, it is a compact volume, and less expensive, but it is very comprehensive while being clear and concise. Good coverage of theory and concepts with examples students will relate to their own experiences. Nice features like glossary terms in margins, summary/review tables, and color photos unlike most of the other brief editions. Pleasantly readable and approachable despite.Essentials of Cultural Anthropology Overview

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Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Review

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Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Reviewthis book was in great condition when received but took longer to arrive than any of the three books i purchased at the same time which is somewhat inconvenient but when finally arriving i was not disappointed with the productHumanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Overview

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Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and Spirituality) Review

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Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and Spirituality) ReviewAfter reading "Black Elk Speaks" I picked up this book because I believe that Native American ways of living have much to offer us. We neglect their wisdom at our peril. It is a great privilege that we have access to their knowledge on how we can live in harmony with Mother Earth. The author starts with the question why he should teach non-Indians about Native American spirituality and answers that it is time to share that spirituality because it does not belong to the Indians alone but to others with the right attitude; we all live in one world. If kept within the Indian community their old wisdom will not be allowed to work its environmental medicine on the world where it is desperately needed. A spiritual fire that promotes a communal commitment to a worldwide environmental undertaking is needed. Native or primal ways will fuel that fire and give it great power. Mother Earth can be revered, respected and protected.
He then quotes the letter from Chief Seathl (Seattle) to the President of the United States of America in 1854 - one of the most unusual and eloquent letters that a President can have received. "How can we buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?" The truth is that we could really stop here, go into a quiet room and reflect on those three sentences and we will surely discover the root cause of many of our ills. We put a price on everything the Indians think has no value and we place no value on everything the Indians think is valuable. Sparkling water in a stream flowing through a wood has no value to us but it is the essence of life to the Indian. Having polluted our rivers and killed the fish we are at long last starting to ask ourselves those very questions that Chief Seattle asked of the President 150 years ago.
Another point made by Chief Seattle haunts me. "...to harm the earth is to heap contempt on the Creator. The Whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste." How many of us today are saying somewhat similar things to our deaf leaders? But the heart and soul of the Indian way of life lies at the end of Seattle's letter, "So, if we sell our land, love it as we've loved it. Care for it as we've cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you take it. And with all your strength, with all your mind, with all your heart, preserve it for your children, and love it ... as God loves us all. One thing w know. Our God is the same God. This earth is precious to Him. Even the white man cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see....." How many of us would claim that we have loved the land as the Indians loved the land, or cared for the land as the Indians cared for the land? If we answer 'no', then surely that means that we have something to learn from the Native Indians. I am sure that if Chief Seattle were here today he would cry to see what we have done to those lands the Indians held sacred. He would cry for the pain inflicted on the earth. He would cry for us who in our greed and selfishness have wrought such damage on ourselves and our children.
I agree with and applaud Ed McGaa. A spiritual fire that promotes a communal commitment to a worldwide environmental undertaking is needed. Native or primal ways will fuel that fire and give it great power. We should all learn something from this book. But not just read and think and speak. But act. This book is nothing if we do not act on it. This is what Stephen Covey was telling us in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" that first we have to change ourselves, and only then we can change others and the world.
Einstein told us that we need a higher level of thinking to get ourselves out of the mess than the thinking that got us into the mess. Stephen Covey tells us that in such situations as we are in today we need a quantum change that can only be brought about by a completely new paradigm. Our current way of living is the paradigm that got us into the mess. The Indian approach is probably the paradigm that will get us out of the mess. If we read this book with an open mind and without prejudice, I believe that the Native American paradigm should be at the top of the shortlist of new paradigms from which we should make our selection for building the world we want for our children.Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and Spirituality) Overview

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The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness Review

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The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness ReviewReview rewritten on 09-APR-2009
Mr. Callemans books are thoughtful and include original ideas. It would take your finding a copy of The Mayan Factor from Joe (aka Jose) Arguelles of 1987 to realize that Mr. Calleman has expanded those concepts and put them in a much more understandable framework (with somewhat less hyperbole).
Apart from John Major Jenkens and Barbara Tedlock most other sources on the Mayan calendar are either academically dry or mainly fantasy. This book in particular provides a road map for the conscious evolution of humanity over the next few years. This evolution is guided, in part, by energetic eminations from the center of the Milky Way. The Mayans call this source the HUnab Ku. This concept is clearly Arguellian,
The book does need to be read carefully and with meditative reflection. There is much here that you will not get if you approach just with the rational mind. This book is a serious treatise of many concepts and not all of them are Mayan. It requires you to approach it as a new human being to be able to understand what it is saying
Calleman provides a general timeline for this period in the years leading up to 2012. He appears to have been correct about energy moving from the West/USA to the East/Asia. His writings on Mayan Fifth night during 2008 and it's portend for the world economy appear to have been an accurate prediction. However, as things worsened in 2009 I began to wonder whether Calleman's correlation of the end date of the Mayan Calendar at Oct 2011 was off by a year and that Dec 21 2012 was indeed the authentic end date.
After spending time in April 2009 reading the 1999-2001 exchanges between Calleman and John Major Jenkins I am leaning more towards the standard 2012 interpretation for many reasons. When I asked Calleman in 2007 about how he arrived at the end date of Oct 28 2011 he referred me to his first book on the Mayan Calendar. The evidence and argument in that book for his end date is brief, sketchy, and unconvincing. You can check out the posts at the alignment 2012 website of JMJ for more information on why the Calleman correlation does not hold water.
Calleman's own synthesis of a world view (and galactic view) containing Mayan elements has merit. But the various elements presented in the book were not clearly distinguished and delineated for the reader as Mayan versus Calleman. You have to be very careful reading his material to know what is Mayan and what is Calleman.
If you have an interest in the Mayan Calendar and 2012 AND you are a very observant reader with some metaphysical leanings there is much you can glean from this book.
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Update on 27-FEB-2011
Looking back on this book five years later, I can say this book continues to grow as an enigma. On the one hand Carl has gotten himself into a corner by going head-long against any traditional or alternative Mayanists by sticking to his 'end' date of Oct 28 2011 and provided no proof for his date correlation that can be verified. You can read interesting exchanges between Carl and John Major Jenkins (JMJ). Carl, in his later book, The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life changes his prophetic model again away from this book to something else (echanging 20 for 18 in the last number period). Johan Normark does a pretty conclusive job of showing how Carl has left himself way out with no basis in Mayan historical source at all and that the latest number schema from Carl can't even any longer contain the full long count timeline.
Picking up this book in the past few days I am struck by something that didn't stand out before. This book is very poorly organized. For example, if you wanted to read about the dreaded 'Fifth Night' in Carl's invented (non-mayan) 13 periods (7 days/6 nights) you would have to jump around to a few places. If you read this book straight through you can get what he is saying. But if you are going back into the book looking to drill down into certain points you will be frustrated because of the poor organization of the book.
And now for the crux of the enigma of this book. This book, coincidentally or not, was one of the few sources to clearly predict the financial meltdown in the West/US in 2008 (clearly within the 5th night). How could someone, if they had jury-rigged the Mayan Calendrics, have more than a few 'hits' in terms of correspondences defined in their material is the question. And if Carls projection holds for his last Tzolkin 260 day round which ends on October 28, 2011, then the period of August 10-30 is also a fractal resonance for the fifth night as well. If you look for 'The Calleman Matrix' on the Internet you can find copies of the chart from this version of the book. Interestingly his theoretical last 260 day round before Oct 28 2011 started on Feb 11 2011, a revolutionary period, also the day that Mubarak was ousted from the Egyptian presidency.
But I suppose only by January 1st 2013 will we really know whether Carl and/or the other 2012ers were onto something. If not then maybe our collective apocalyptic neurosis will latch onto another date for some other reason.
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Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House Review

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I found this book in an airport, and bought it for three reasons: 1) because Bruce Sterling plugged it; 2) because my 15-year old is well on his way to being part of the emerging counter-culture; and 3) because I do believe that "power to the people" is now imminent--not if, but when.
It starts slow, quickly improves by page 50, and as I put down the book I could not help but think, "tour de force." This is both a work of scholarship and an advanced commentary that puts counter-culture movements across history into a most positive context.
Across the ages, the common currency of any counter-culture is the will to live free of constraints, limiting the impositions of authority. Indeed, it is very hard not to put this book down with an altered appreciation for hippies, war protesters and civil rights activists, for the book makes it clear that they are direct intellectual, cultural, and emotional descendants of both Socrates and the Founding Fathers, especially Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.
From Socrates to Taoism, Zen, Sufis, Troubadours, the Enlightenment, the Americans, Bohemian Paris, and into the 1950's through the 1970's, the author's broad brush review of the history of counter-culture in all its forms is helpful to anyone interested in how the next twenty years might play out.
The bottom line is clear: we need the counter-culture, and it is time for this century's culture hackers--of whom Stewart Brand may be the first--along with the author--to rise from their slumber.
Some side notes:
1) An underlying theme, not fully brought out, is that anything in excess or without balance can be harmful. Absolute dictatorship by religions is as bad as absolute secular dictatorship. Science without humanity, humanity without science.
2) The Jewish religion is favorably treated in this book as perhaps the most counter-cultural and individualistic of the religions. I found this intriguing and was quite interested in some of the specific examples.
3) I disagree with the author's attack on Roger Shattuck's "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography," and would go so far as to say that the two books should be read together, along with "Voltaire's Bastards," "Consilience," and a few of the other books on my information society list.
The author concludes somewhat somberly, not at all sure that there is much good ahead. He very rationally notes that before we begin the next big counter-cultural movement we should probably focus on fundamentals first: do we have enough water, energy, food, medicine?
I agree with that, and I agree with John Gage's prediction in 2000, that DoKoMo phones in the hands of pre-teens, and Sony Playstations at $300 with access to the Internet, are irrevocably changing the balance of power. Jonathan Schell is on target in "Unconquerable World: Power, Non-Violence, and the Will of the People," and both Tom Atlee ("The Tao of Democracy") and Howard Rheingold ("Smart Mobs") as well as James Surowiecki ("The Wisdom of the Crowds") all show us clearly that information is going to out the corrupt and restore balance to our lives. It is not a matter of if, but when. Collective intelligence--public intelligence--is here to stay.Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House Overview

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Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus Review

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Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus ReviewI got "Conversations on Leadership - Wisdom from Global Management
Gurus" yesterday. It is written by a 40 years old native Chinese, Lan
Liu, who is a raising star in China. He got BS, MS from Peking
University in Leadership, and MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School. He is
teaching China's elite decision makers now.
My original purpose to read this book is I like to know 20 years later
how China will be led and by what kind of people. This book sure has a
lot of surprising wisdom from all over the world, amazingly. I also
get highly entertained with his unintentional humors, such as he
quoted the following:
Confucious' Analects recorded Zengzi, one of the greatest disples of
Confucius, examined (should be reflect) himself many times a day by
asking himself such questions: "When doing things for others, have I
put in my best efforts? In intercourse with friends, am I always true
to my word (may be he meant "Do I social with my friends truthfully?")
Have I failed to practice what I teach?"
I use iMindMap to take key notes when I read. If I can not put down
much then I usually return the book. I only read 55 pages of this book
so far, I already put down tons of notes on the branches, such as:
Quality: adaptive capacity-humble, curiosity, respectful-listen, learn
from whoever you are with, passion, reflective practice, know
yourself - values, character, authentic being, courage (70% confidence
and knowledge then do it), generosity on
appreciation-acknowledge-respect, Ego and ambition, Able follower
(speak truth to power, realize mission).
Leader does the right thing and manager does thing right.
Just name 1/3 of the notes I took so far, you get idea, right?
I highly recommend this book and it is very entertaining by looking
his straight face on the back cover and read his English. China does
have hope, huge hope with these funny and super smart leaders. He is
totally Americanized too, which is great for us.
Long life the friendship of China and America! :-)Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus Overview

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Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations Review

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Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations ReviewWhile I found a few gems and insights, this 600-plus page tome needed a good book editor to boil it down to maybe 200 pages. It appears a bunch of noted academics were trying to appear, well, academic, and they succeeded. Single sentences the length of paragraphs, simple words with superfluous suffixes added--I kept saying to myself, "just say it already--stop trying to impress me with how you can bury a simple point in a massive flood of verbage." I reccommend the first book in this series, "Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display" (1991) as being much more accessible and helpful.Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations Overview

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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Review

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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) ReviewFor those interested (seriously or curiously) in Globalization this is one the central pieces to be read. The book provides a sociological framework for the analysis and understanding of the meanings of the term and how the world came to be as it is. It is a serious work, grounded on the most serious sociological thinking. In general terms, we could say that this work has a serious cultural perspective on the subject matter. The book has been translated to 6 languages (I translated it to one of them) and has been regarded as "a treaty" on the subject matter. The author himself has been regarded by scholars in the field as one of the leading theorists in the subject matter. My personal opinion is that this book is becoming one of the centuries masterpiece in the theorization and problematization of globalization. If you want to know more about the book, look for book reviews in the Sociological Abstracts or email me: barrosoj@hotmail.comGlobalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Overview

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