The world is..

Flat. At least Tom Friedman thinks so. And I think I agree with him. Heard about the book from this client manager I used to work with and its been on my to read list since a while now.
Finally managed to pick up a copy of it recently and have read about 5 chapters so far.

First thing that comes to your mind is whoa, the title or the concept of the book was inspired by the CEO of Infosys. Its awesome to see that a book with such widespread response was inspired by, you know, one of us :)

But apart from that its an honest and interesting attempt to unfurl and understand why we are the way we are now. It takes you through a maze of globalization, corporate culture, cutting edge technologies and not to forget all the pioneers of the great companies out there. Its sheer pleasure to read about the vision each of these companies were created with and the execution of the same. The book is almost a treasure trove of information which honestly I would not have known otherwise. Inside information on the otherwise unknown territories some of the big conglomerates charter is fascinating!

Having said that I also did think the book is a little bit biased because somewhere, its from the author's personal point of view. You tend to wonder somewhere along the way about whether this was indeed such a big change agent as made out to be or whether some of the other big ones have been left out or whether something really qualifying as a world flattener? But I guess, a little personal point of view is not a bad thing and definitely something a writer is entitled to.

All said and done a very fascinating book and definitely worth a read if you haven't done so already.

* The book is still in the process of being read, I reserve all rights to change my opinion any time :)