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Adelaide Magic Convention
Yesterday I got home from Adelaide after attending a magic convention. Here are some impressions of this weekend of thaumaturgy.
The two and a half day gathering of magicians and magic enthusiasts started with a Close-Up show. It quickly became clear that this would be a weekend of card tricks, more card tricks and even some [...]
Vietnamese selfishness
Asian cultures are usually characterised as being collective in nature. This basically means that people prioritise the objectives of a group over their own individual objectives Sitting on a fifth floor café in Hanoi, sipping a Bia Ha Noi and watching the traffic, I would almost contradict that age old wisdom about collective cultures. As [...]
The Vietnamese Way
Our researc topic for our expedition to Vietnam is Human Resource Management. As we are narrowing the topic down we found that local managers and academics are very interested in human resource management theories that are based in Western thinking.
They indicated that there is no Vietnamese human resource management theory and that they translate foreign [...]
Hanoi expedition
Yesterday I left Australia to join a group of MBA students from La Trobe University on an expedition to Hanoi. The purpose of this trip is to find out about how Vietnamese managers deal with human resource issues.
I am in Singapore now, waiting around between flights. Singapore is my home away from home in Asia. [...]
Converging Commonality and Business Strategy
It is often said that the world is becoming increasingly smaller. Whereas it used to take months to travel from Australia to Europe, the trip can now be undertaken in one day and electronic communication enables people to instantly deliver messages across the world. These changes in the “spatial and temporal contours” of existence have [...]
The Management Fundamentalism of Frederick Taylor
Management thinkers played an influential role in shaping the twentieth century, but they remained in the shadow of those who Time Magazine considers the most influential. The influence of visionaries such as Frederick Taylor, Elton Mayo and W. Edwards Deming is, however, immense as their ideas were instrumental in creating the prosperity of the late [...]
The Spirit of Uluru
Uluru, or Ayers Rock as it is known to westerners, is a place of deep spiritual and cultural significance to the local aboriginal people, the Anangu. The many visitors to the National Park who come to see Uluru does, however, cause great tensions, as the values of the Anangu are not always recognised by the [...]
Magic Avebury: Prehistoric Monuments and Their Spiritual Significance
Avebury is a village South of London where some of the most important Neolithic sites in Europe are located. In this paper I will give a description of some of the monuments in the area and discuss some interpretations of their use in ancient and recent days.
What fascinated me most about these ancient monuments is [...]
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