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India the Superpower? Think again
If you read the book by Edward Luce “In Spite of the Gods”, you would have to agree with this latest article. The statistics that India has in respect to the amount of people that live under poverty is staggering. read more digg story
Read MoreAlternative ways living your life: Life 2.0 and What Shoudl I do with My Life
If you want to check out two very good books about alternative ways of living the life is to read the book by Rich Karlgaard “Life 2.0″ and the book by Po Bronson “What Should I do with My Life“. These are books that are not given by universities or schools; these are books about…
Read MoreRecommended reading: The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson
The book from Frans Johansson “The Medici Effect” opens many interesting thoughts that we do not think on a daily basis. First of all, we are prisoners of our own environment whereby we have hard time to accept anything that is different. We might have fears, we might thing that people with other opinions are…
Read MoreChina and India under Research – Some Books to Explore
I am in the process of researching both China and India for my upcoming book. The new concept Chindia can be studied by reading the book from BusinessWeek (edited by Peter Engardio) “Chindia – How China and India Are Revolutionzing Global Business”. This book can be reviewed from Amazon.com by in following link. Two other…
Read MoreBooks to review within the strategy space
As part of my upcoming book I have to review existing literature around enterprise strategy and other topics around products, markets, market segmentation etc. Some of the most interesting books that I have recently bought is the book from Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams “Wikinomics” and two books from Chesbrough “Open Business Models” and…
Read MoreSony has to wake up to increase books used by Sony Reader PRS-500
I have now been a user of the new Sony PRS-500 book reader and I have been tracking how well Sony brings new books to the system….. and they do not… in fact… it stinks. The device will be doomed if they do not wake up to do a better job. The device itself is…
Read MoreInteresting article in Helsingin Sanomat today about India’s educational system
India is waking up to issues around its educational system. Only 50 percent of women can read (75 percent of men can read), the university system is now divided into two categories: IIT seven top faculties and 13 others are ranked as top of breed while 230 other universities run by local states have funding…
Read MoreVerdict of my Sony Reader
I have now used my Sony Reader for more than a month and I have to admit that it is one of the better investments I have done lately. I have bought almost 80 books, and the beauty is that I can carry my device with me and all of the books. Also, the device…
Read MoreVictim of Gadgetry – Sony Reader PRS-500
I am a book junky. I order books from Amazon.com every week and these books have piled up in my shelves and I am running out of room. I have been waiting for some electronic gadget that would take care of my problem. I read almost a year ago about this new gadget called Sony…
Read MoreWhy Software Sucks – Hilarious book about the reality we live in in respect to software
I run into a book that I could not resist of not buying. This book, written by David S. Platt and the title is very appealing….. Why Software sucks – and what you can do about it. I have been in software product development for almost 20 years and I still get flabbergasted how we…
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