The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live as They Do: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do - Softcover
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Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.
The Culture Code by internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals, for the first time, the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. These groundbreaking insights illuminate not just business strategies, but the very way human beings act and live around the globe.
Rapaille’s core discovery is that we acquire a silent system of cultural codes as we grow up—codes that unconsciously shape our thoughts, behaviors, and desires. These Culture Codes define what it means to be American, French, German, and more. By learning to decode them, we gain powerful insight into our motivations and actions—even those we don't consciously understand.
Using the Culture Code, Rapaille helped Chrysler create the PT Cruiser, guided Procter & Gamble in designing one of the most successful Folger’s coffee campaigns, and worked with companies like GE, AT&T, Boeing, Honda, Kellogg, and L’Oréal to drive international success. Now, in this compelling book, he applies his method to explain why Americans act so distinctly—and how we differ from cultures around the world.
In The Culture Code, Dr. Rapaille explores two dozen of our most fundamental archetypes—from sex and money to health and patriotism—offering a powerful new lens through which to understand our choices. Why are we disillusioned by love? Why is fat seen as a solution rather than a problem? Why do we reject perfection? Why is fast food such a lasting part of our lives? The answers are in the Codes.
By understanding the Culture Codes, we gain unprecedented freedom to change how we live, love, and do business. This book reveals the hidden patterns that shape us all—and the key to unlocking the deeper truths of human behavior.
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About the Author
Dr. CLOTAIRE RAPAILLE is the chairman of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide and has used this decoding approach for thirty years. He is the personal adviser to ten high-ranking CEOs and is kept on retainer by fifty Fortune 100 companies. He has been profiled in many national media outlets, including 60 Minutes II and on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Styles section. He lives in Tuxedo Park, New York.
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