I read two books in recent past, one is THE WORLD IS FLAT and another one is THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERARI.
THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERARI is about the inner world. This book reminds us inner strength and voice. Robin Sharma is an American of Indian origin who explains the Indian philosophy to world in a very simple way. It is unfortunate that we Indians ignore our philosophy. We see only west for any new thing. There are two terms modernization and westernization. People generally understand westernization as modernization. Modernization means progressive thinking, rational thinking, you must think unbiased, you must not prejudiced to anything before taking any decision. If I think something is perfect it may be from India, America or any place I must accept. Similarly if some thing is wrong we must reject it may be it from most advance country. For all this Person should be of courageous and have moral value. After reading this book I realize that America is super power not because of they have most talented person of the world, but due to there acceptance of every good thing of world and rejecting bad thing. In this book only Indian philosophy is explained in a simple story and even then this book is most successful book in USA, after that it comes in India and we are reading because it is most sold book in USA and not because it is about Indian culture. What a strange thing is it not?
THE WORLD IS FLAT is about the outer world. It is a business book which explains the changing world equation in last decade along with coming of information technology. Friedman is a journalist and works for New York Times. With coming of computer world changed a lot. Now all walls are going to be vanished slowly and the world is going to be flat. Many MNCs are now distributed in different parts of the world in search of lower production cost and with the help of internet all works are controlled from one place. When you purchase a mobile, its different parts may be manufactured from 10 different countries. So in this new world the smallest unit a man can collaborate with another man of the world same as a country or company can collaborate with their counter parts.
In both the books one thing is common.
Person have unbelievable strength you have to dig yourself, you have to push to the edge. (TMWSHF)
Company or Country have infinity options to improve their productivity, they have to collaborate and imagine beyond horizon.(TWIF)
So there are always infinity possibilities.