The Global Code: How a New Culture of Universal Values Is Reshaping Business and Marketing Hardcover – September 29, 2015

For all you international types, the bi- and tri-lingual, those who studied abroad and loved it, all of you with international families and friends, this book is fantastic. Well-researched and delightful to read, Dr. Rapaille unveils codes for understanding how members of the "Global Tribe" are changing our culture. Discover the universal values shaping business and read tips for developing your own global brand. This book really lays out in a useful way what I have intuitively felt over the years about global culture. I think you'll find he confirms what you have felt to be true but didn't have the details spelled out because hardly anyone talks about this.

A remarkable book that's become one of my reference books. It’s a must-read for every marketer who targets millennials, the global market and/or high net worth individuals. Without question, it’s a book for big thinkers as Dr. Clotaire is ahead of the market. I understand some don’t understand this market; but it exists and I see it in my customer base.I’ve refer to the book often; all high-level executives will too. I’ve also recommended the book to several clients and the responses back have always been positive. Chris Ramey

I love his earlier book, The Culture Code. Ramit Sethi recommended it a while ago. Anyhow, this book is mostly about the Satellite Tribe that has multiple passports and always goes for the best of everything. I was interested in the author's insights.

This was not the book I expected it to be. As a HUGE fan of The Culture Code, I was expecting more of the same, but with a broader view of the world - a discussion of how we are all becoming culturally assimilated into a common Global Code. That is not what Rapaille found, so that is not what this book is about. For fans of the previous book, there are still a lot of common codes revealed - beauty, luxury, millennials, electricity, security - but without the same in-depth background research that led to the discovery of these codes. This makes his conclusions and predictions seem to come out of nowhere.My other frustration with the book came from his insights into the Global Tribe. For all Rapaille's instance that attitude and not money create this tribe, it seemed that he only talked about the very wealthy - the "Court". So I left still wondering where the "wanderlusters" of today fit into Rapaille's hierarchy of the Global Tribe. They do not (seem to) aspire to be in the Court, they relish unknown, often uncomfortable experiences, and seek out the bizarre or mundane, like street food. They don't always follow the rule of three. Yet they seem to have the "attitude" Rapaille advocates at the end of the book.Overall, I wish the excellent insights of the book had been presented in a more logical way. As it is, the bizarre conclusions Rapaille draws stand out more than the rest of the content.

I read a previous book by this author “The Culture Code…” and really enjoyed it. It was interesting to read about how, by means of associations, cultural codes were identified and applied when creating new advertising campaigns. I expected “The Global Code” to be similar to “The Culture Code…” and hoped to read about how our cultural codes are modified by global interconnection, etc. But this book turned out to be a great disappointment…The author overreaches himself trying to cover too many topics, which often seem unrelated. He introduces so-called global codes, drops them on the reader and never explains what that information was mentioned for (like the information that the Indian Culture Code is separate realities) or how he had come up with those codes.The narration is very subjective. For instance, the authors described the global code on leadership and for this purpose analyzed three politicians, their styles of leadership, etc. The analysis is the author’s personal opinion of the three leaders – Presidents Putin, Obama and Holland. The narrative, to my mind, gets offensive and extremely disrespectful at some points. He writes: “The third leader I want to explore is even more abhorrent than the previous two”.Mostly the author seems to be enchanted by the lifestyle of the extremely rich – the Global Tribe as he calls them, who, according to the book, using their excusive credit cards and membership, can do everything and dictate the world how to behave. To Prof. Rapaille’s mind, these are the people who create global codes. No empirical data or examples of how the author has reached these conclusions are presented – just his enthusiastic description of the lives of the rich.As it is indeed hard to be proficient in so many areas and present a deep and objective analysis of so many topics in one book, the result is quite disappointing – it’s a subjective and superficial enumeration of unrelated topics.

Clotaire Rapaille wrote a book on the lifestyle of the Global Tribe, a group of privileged people who travel our planet with very unique preferences and behaviors. It may be interesting to learn this topic in depth from the perspective of brand development and understanding unique customer preferences. I just think that the level of "royalty" described and the author's clear appreciation of the "rich and noble" is a bit too much.

I read the free kindle sample and liked it. It was a bit of an introduction chapter for the entire book and seemed quite interesting.So I bought the full book (kindle version) and read the first chapter called "The Global Tribe".It was so full of elitism and glorifying an elite group of people. I quit reading the book because the author's pompousness really really annoyed me.I had read his previous book, the culture code. That one was ok (i'd give it 3,5 stars) but its best was also the free Kindle sample and the rest of it wasn't nearly as good.So just to be clear. Thus one star is based only how bad/annoying this first chapter was.I didn't read the entire book (but I payed for it and really regret it).

Not enough detail about globalization. Not as good as his first book.

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Not quite the other books but convergence approach to the previous divergent way of under standing culture.