By Grant Hall. Through events you will meet the right people and influence the people that you need to. Well considered events can convey powerful messages that the spoken and written word often can’t.
Category: diplomacy
Croquet clubs, festivals and advancing economic growth in Adelaide
By Grant Hall. How festivals build economic growth and how governments destroy it.
How South Australia is using Corporate Cultural Diplomacy to increase trade with China
By Grant Hall. How the Government of South Australia is using Corporate Cultural Diplomacy to advance its trade relationship with China and why it’s a good model that can be adopted by governments elsewhere.
Us and them, theirs and ours
By Grant Hall. Reflections on audience development, why haters hate and the perils of ‘us’ and ‘them’ thinking.
China’s strategy for exporting culture; an approach worth emulating
Low growth states should consider adapting the Chinese approach to exporting culture.
Corporate cultural diplomacy; how it works in practice (with examples)
By Grant Hall. Corporate cultural diplomacy is more than getting people together in a room and hoping they like each other.
Australia-Vietnam relations. Building trade, social capital and security through culture in Asia.
from the archives of wherewordsfailblog.com
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.
Rolling with it: What Kevin Rudd, Matt and Brother Orange can teach us about international relations.
Contrasting Kevin Rudd’s Ted Talk ‘Are China and US doomed to conflict?’ with the tale of Matt and Brother Orange.
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.
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