Europeans Laughing At American Businesses
from the ha-ha-ha dept
Red Herring has an article from their editor in London telling all of us Americans that the Europeans are laughing at us for our various business scandals over the past year. Europeans, according to this guy, are using this as an opportunity to look down on our way of doing business. My guess is that this article is really something of a troll looking to generate some controversy along the "cultural differences" line. Any time you stereotype an entire group of people by their country, you're just asking for a long, drawn out, and (usually) useless argument.
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Nothing To Laugh At
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I Almost Agree
I'd agree with this 100%, as long as you leave out the word "American." No one country has a monopoly on shady or unsound business practices, and anybody who thinks their local businesses are immune will be in for a rude awakening someday.
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Who cares what Europeans think?
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An American in London
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For Ever
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Re: I Almost Agree
Those are the cornerstones of modern management, Jack Welch is gawd on earth (done my MBA 1999-00, Welch would pop up at every corner)
so, I would say, forget about the way newspapers and journalists deal with it, consider it is major shake-up in the way corporations are managed, and it is a far reaching change, and the US is leading the way, as usual
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