David Victor Vector: Reykjavik Peace Tower lighting

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Reykjavik Peace Tower lighting

In a few minutes (8 PM Reykjavik time), Yoko Ono will turn on the Imagine Peace Tower. She lights it every year on his birthday and it is turned off each year on December 8 (the anniversary of his murder). My daughters and I took the ferry from Reykjavik to Viðey Island to visit the site. We had the island almost to ourselves as we biked around it. Although we visited when the beam was not on, even without the light, the tower is inspiring with its symbolism and with the word PEACE written on the sides in 24 languages.

As for today, I made my own wish on the site (we are all asked to do so if we can... please do so too). My wish? That the memory of John Lennon will inspire us all to reach out to one another. IMAGINE PEACE TOWER – live feed http://imaginepeacetower.com/

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More About David Victor's Academic Experience

I teach at the Eastern Michigan University College of Business I am also editor of the Global Advances in Business Communication. http://commons.emich.edu/gabc/

Among other subjects, I teach Managing World Business Communication, Fundamentals of Global Business, international business ethics, international business, Business Ethics/CSR, and International Management as well as a series of "Doing Business In..." seminars for business in specific countries and regions. My course at EMU in Managing World Business Communication first designed and taught nearly 20 years ago was among the first regularly taught on cross-cultural business communication in an AACSB-accredited school.

From 1996-1997, I was President of the Association for Business Communication and helped to establish the European and the Asia/Pacific regions of that organization. In 2010, I was honored to have won the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award, an international prize given by the Association for Business Communication. Over the years, I have received 6 grants from a variety of sources including the US Department of Education and the Federal Government of Canada. .

In 1992, I was the first recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Foreign Professorship (Graduate Level) of the InstitutoTecnologico y EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey. I was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium in 2008 and at the Universidade do Caxias do Sul in Brazil in 2010. I also hold classes for Saint Mary's of California's TransGlobal Executive MBA students.

About David Victor’s Consulting Experience

I have consulted since the mid-1980’s, mostly in the area of international business communication, expatriate relocation and diversity management for a range of clients including school systems, hospital networks and city and state governments as well as a wide range of companies working domestically in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, East Asia and Europe. I have consulted and run programs for over 150 companies and organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the state governments of Idaho, Iowa and Michigan, the American Bar Association and the US Army as well as several city governments and health systems in the US and abroad.