thanks for your message. I too think that Mohammed Yunus has created a truly great thing, and he did it in many small steps. His autobiography is extremely inspiring.

thanks a lot for your comment. It’s great when people use the knowledge that’s in a book to succeed.

I checked out your blog and love it.

Web based has advantages such as collaboration, flexible access, cross platform, multi-user and automatic upgrades and updates.

And internet connectivity itself doesnt make for globalization. There is this small, but interesting book, by Aronica and Ramdoo, “The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman’s New York Times Bestseller,” which offers a counterperspective to Friedman’s theory on globalization.

Interestingly enough, the book written about two years back, discusses in the following chapters,
“Debt and Financialization of America”
“America”s Former Middle Class”
“A Paradigm Shift for America” with prescriptions for the future

the debt ridden American society, deregulated financial institutions, mortgage crisis and other related issues, with clear pointers to the economic crisis gripping US today. For more information regarding the same, check this out: mkpress.com/FlatExcerpts.pdf

This is a small book compared to the 600 page tome by Friedman, and aimed at the common man and students alike. As popular as the book may be, some reviewers assert that by what it leaves out, Friedman’s book is dangerous. The authors point to the fact that there isn’t a single table or data footnote in Friedman’s entire book.

“Globalization is the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution,” says Aronica.

You may want to see http://www.mkpress.com/flat
and watch http://www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html
for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman’s
“The World is Flat”.

Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! http://www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html

There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation
http://www.mkpress.com/extreme
http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html

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