Google and China can be described as information dictators. When I utter the word dictate, I do not necessarily mean bloody dictators. I mean it in the true sense of the verb: “Dictate”.
Definitions of “Dictate” are
a. To prescribe with authority; impose
b. To control or command
Clearly when it comes to information prescription and control, both Google and China are dictators. Google would like to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” in a format that would bring it the most advertising revenue. China would simply like to control information that flows to its citizenry so that such information will not create a risk for its controlling “communist” regime.
Google has given an ultimatum to China about China interfering in Google’s information dictatorship (aka. corporate/government espionage and hacking practices on its information database). It is the first time a corporation dared to publicly challenge a nation. It is also the first time Google confronts another information dictatorship. The entire so far seems to be a motion to force China to the negotiation table more than any other ideals that Google claims. Time will show. In terms of directly pulling out of China, since Google is a publicly traded corporation, every stockholder would hunt the Google board if it was to back out of serving 20+% of the world population with its ad space.
I hope they can get what they want from the Chinese doing this negotiation dance before their PR balloon blows up completely in their face. Winning a battle with the Chinese in their own home field is something that happens only once in a 1000 years. Winning that battle is not for every one even if you are the most valuable brand in the world. The last person conquer the Chinese was Kublai Khan in 1271
In a funny irony, these maze of events, a classic movie dance classic by Charlie Chaplin in the movie “Great Dictator” (1940) as the character “Hynkel” (representing Hitler). The dance is about its dreams of controlling the entire world. Of course his balloon also pops up representing the failure of every dictator that dreams of world dictatorship. Charlie Chaplin at his best…
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn – Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) – The Dark Knight
Did you know the loudest football game record holder (soccer) for a single game in the world is Inonu Stadium in Istanbul ? The amazing part is that capacity of the stadium is only 32145. Consider the fact that there are over 500 football and soccer stadiums around the world with over 40000 capacity (largest being 150000 in North Korea).
What makes a small crowd become so driven? (Continued)
In the above video, Austin Adams, Former CIO of JPMorgan Chase, talks about dysfunctional silos in corporations. The siloing is definitely killing the effectiveness of the online marketing initiatives of many corporations. In a traditional company, there are four main marketing related silos. (Continued)
You’re playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can’t move… you can’t breathe… because you’re in over your head. Like quicksand. – Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), The Replacements
In an economic depression, many small businesses and unemployed people look for a lifeboat to save them. (Continued)
As the shocking images of the Haiti earthquake consumed the world; charity donations poured all over the world. I was walking down to the Union Station. A middle aged man was begging for money with a 3-4 year old girl holding his hand (15 degrees Fahrenheit weather max with the windchill as he was on a bridge). I stood where I was 50 feet away from the man for 5 minutes and watched hundreds of professional business people in suits pass by not handing out a cent. Will it take hundreds of thousands people dead in a metropolitan city in the United States before the people in this land learn to help this country’s own citizens? I do not defend begging with a kid as being an acceptable practice. But… That man was desperate to use his child (I hope she was his daughter) as a tool to beg money. He risked his kid being taken away by cops due to inhumane treatment of a child for standing there in very cold temperatures. He was not a drunk. He did not seem to be a drug addict. He was just desperate. Help Haiti… but if you can, also help your own country.
I would truly love WhiteHouse.gov to give instructions every single day about how you can help your fellow countrymen/women as much as it gives instructions about how to help Haiti just for a week or two until the headlines fade away.
My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man – JFK, Jan 24, 1960
Monopoly is defined as a situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service. This would happen in the case that there is a barrier to entry into the industry that allows the single company to operate without competition (for example, vast economies of scale, barriers to entry, or governmental regulation). In such an industry structure, the producer will often produce a volume that is less than the amount which would maximize social welfare. (Continued)
