The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management Review

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The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management ReviewThis book veers away from reality into fantasyland and depicts a country that is not India. Indian business is run in a conglomerate fashion, where big name industrialists control majority of natural resources and have the political clout to twist the arm of the government to make policies that favor them. The workers at these conglomerates are treated as they are, because there is purpose - they create the wealth that the industrialists enjoy. So they throw a few bones at their workers, while they enjoy the meat! The workers at these companies are means to an end (the end being the billions that the industrialists are worth - check the Forbes richest if you don't believe me). The only objective of these billionaires is to loot the country and enrich themselves in the process. Contrary to what the authors suggest, they are in no way involved in nation building!
The authors, being foreign - though of Indian origin, are making their assessments from the perch on the ivory tower and have no idea of what the reality of the common man is. They seem to be mesmerized by the sheer wealth of our industrialists and shower them with enough compliments to make them blush! Of course, they interviewed all these men in person and any bad remark would preclude granting of any future interviews! And, I fell for the book like many others; the book does have lot of forwards written by the industrialists themselves! (Now that should constitute some sort of conflict of interest)
The reality is summed up in this paragraph: The workers in these firms are like any other; they treat their employees well and make sure that they get the maximum work of them. They are not granted any stock options or ownership stake in companies (which would of course dilute the promoter's stake!), they are given living quarters (like the communists used to!), told exactly what to do (and not think too much). They are treated like babies who can never get away from their doting parents - never to be independent or self-sufficient again! They are the sole cause of why some of the best brains in India are not entrepreneurial and instead work for these conglomerates - that promises to take care of them from the time their graduation to their grave!
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Review

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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century ReviewI'd forgotten the pleasure reading good prose brings. Friedman not only writes well, but does so on an important subject- globalization. He states, "It is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal footing than at any previous time in the history of the world."
He claims, "When the world is flat, you can innovate without having to emigrate". But, how did the world `become flat'? Friedman suggest the trigger events were the collapse of communism, the dot-com bubble resulting in overinvestment in fiber-optic telecommunications, and the subsequent out-sourcing of engineers enlisted to fix the perceived Y2K problem.
Those events created an environment where products, services, and labor are cheaper. However, the West is now losing its strong-hold on economic dominance. Depending on if viewed from the eyes of a consumer or a producer - that's either good or bad, or a combination of both.
What is more sobering is Friedman's elaboration on Bill Gates' statement, "When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow. In math and science, our fourth graders are among the top students in the world. By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a population with a college degree is important, but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In the international competition to have the biggest and best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling behind."
Friedman sounds the alarm with a call for diligence and fortitude - academically, politically, and economically. He sees a dangerous complacency, from Washington down through the public school system. Students are no longer motivated. "In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears -- and that is our problem."
Questions I wish Friedman had explored in further detail are:
1. When should countries do what benefits the global economy, and when should they look out for their own interests? (protectionism, tariffs, quotas, etc.)
2. What will a `flat world' mean to the world's poor? (those living in Haiti, Angola, Kazakhstan, etc.)
3. What cultural values (or absence thereof) are contributing to the West's loss of productivity, education, and excellence? (morality, truth, religion, meaning, hope?)
4. How will further globalization effect cultural distinctions? (Are we heading towards a universal melting pot?)
5. What will a `flat world' mean environmentally - particularly for those countries on the verge of an economic explosion?
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Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India Review

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Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India ReviewI really enjoyed this book. Although its purpose was somewhat different, I found myself thinking: This is what Eat, Pray, Love could have been. I mean that Miranda Kennedy's new book is not self-absorbed, not overly packaged, and not glossily superficial in its conclusions. I also did not find it boring in the least (I believe another reviewer had that experience.)
Several things struck me very positively about Sideways on a Scooter. First of all, I now have insights into the Indian culture that I might never have had; and not big-stroke, world-stage, political/economic insights, as much as intricate and human insights. I really enjoyed getting to know the people, the neighborhoods, and the customs Ms. Kennedy encountered as a young foreign correspondent. One moment I was shocked, the next touched. I shook my head in dismay, and rooted whole-heartedly for the underdogs - the upwardly non-mobile, the jaded, the cats. I rooted for Ms. Kennedy too, the young woman desperately seeking independence and belonging at the same time.
There was a little ambiguity at moments in terms of past/present orientation, but I have to say that I much prefer that to slick and overly controlled. This book felt ever so slightly messy, and I easily became comfortable with the medium being the message. There were no tidy lives in Sideways on a Scooter.
The book ends rather quietly and perhaps with almost too little denouement. But there is an epilogue, which is pretty satisfying for those of us who want to know how things have gone since then. I felt a little like giving the book a hug at the end. In fact I think I may have.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, especially if that friend were female and interested in other cultures, or in the bold and trembling adventures of youth.
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