By Grant Hall. Corporate cultural diplomacy is more than getting people together in a room and hoping they like each other.
Category: cultural
Australia-Vietnam relations. Building trade, social capital and security through culture in Asia.
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Images of Black resistance
Kenji Wardenclyffe’s striking image from a racist rally in Melbourne is gaining global attention.
Cultural immersion trumps theoretical knowledge in international business.
Theoretical learning about cultural norms from courses and books can be a poor substitute to on-the-ground, in-country, cultural immersion learning.
Beijing and Perth orchestras put Corporate Cultural Diplomacy into action.
By Grant Hall. A cultural engagement program between the China Philharmonic and the West Australia Symphony Orchestras is a good example of corporate cultural diplomacy.
Decoding a culture. Book review: THE DAILY ARTS by Phan Cẩm Thượng.
By Grant Hall. How art can help ‘decode’ a culture. An investigation into the arts and cultures of Vietnam.
Front bar economics: boom towns, tax reform and living in Perth.
Thoughts about living in boom towns.
Orchestras and cultural diplomacy
By Grant Hall. Music can communicate where words fail to do so. It’s this transcendent quality that makes it perfect for cultural diplomacy.
Fun
Grant Hall writes about fun, entrepreneurship, long-term travel and artistry.
How do we know if we have a cultural problem?
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Australia’s cramped sense of masculinity
By Grant Hall. Australia’s cramped sense of masculinity is it’s biggest cultural challenge.
Corporate Cultural Diplomacy, World Cup Cricket and why the Irish should ‘get on it’.
By Grant Hall. I tried for years to get my Irish friends interested in cricket because it’s a great sport, but now my argument is economics.
where words fail 