Seniority promotion, the lifetime employment system and the dead hand of Japanese corporate bureaucracy are all anathema to the free-wheeling stock-option culture that attracts Chinese businessmen these days.

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Though the stock market dominates our culture, there is a strange spirit of denial that has led observers to believe that each bailout or refinancing was the end of the trouble.

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Faced with a deteriorating stock price and a culture that some have described as caustic, her actions as CEO to bring people back from the bedroom and into the office could be read as an attempt to reestablish the power of place.

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Labour leader Ed Miliband said the pay increases were part of a "something for nothing" culture, since the stock market had not risen to match them.

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He purposely and deliberately created a culture at Facebook that was dismissive of the stock market and the responsibilities of being a publicly-traded company.

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And their findings about teen births, women's status and innovation depend on Scandinavia, a region with a mild and sensible culture that is equally evident among people of Scandinavian stock who live in America.

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Thanks to a meritocratic culture, and the discipline of having some of its stock traded, Petrobras is a leader in deep-sea oil.

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Sandberg also recently said it was part of the culture at Facebook to immediately allow its venture capital backers to trade out of the stock, according to a report by Fox Business Reporter Charlie Gasparino, who suggested the company favored connected Silicon Valley investors over stock market investors.

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The culture is based on Silicon Dragon entrepreneurship--it has venture capital funding, all employees have stock ownership and the team is like a family, even going on annual camping expeditions together.

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