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Recommended reading for global leaders

For incoming Fletcher Masters in International Business students, I can recommend the following books: - Subprime Primer http://www.slideshare.net/ guesta9d12e/subprime-primer- 277484 - An accounting textbook or two, …
I am because you are

(and my September 11th) It's been a good day - Major Purcell gave an entertaining explanation as to why why the Lt Cols in the cohort may refer to him by a call sign, I got commissioned to interview Professor Vali Nasr,…
High value excerpts from Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat

Not all that's said in this book is an intelligent narrative or concept, there is some stupidity, such as this gem, '"Son, when a Muslim grows up in India and he sees a man living in a big mansion high on a hill, he say…
Where is India?

And the Indians claim that Pakistanis identify themselves by what they are not! "Some would ask which country I am from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not I…
Excerpts from Good to be God by Tibor Fischer

"Religion never has to deliver, it only has to promise to deliver." "The pork chop is simply done, but it's so good, so unimprovable, it's terrifying and unnatural. It's as if I've been waiting twenty years to eat it. […
Excerpts from Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

My friend Lee leant me this book, which talks of the London through which we promenade. For me, the character developments of the nasty, bitter, wronged, politically contrary, religious, dour, ugly Miss Kilman and of the…
Pakistan's intelligence agency and army are on the Taliban's side

Reading Ahmed Rashid's 'Descent into Chaos' and on the ground reports from Pakistan like the one below, it appears that Pakistan's army and intelligence agency, the ISI, are playing a double game, spending more effort in…
Al Qaeda won

According to this narrative, not an uncommon one, al Qaeda succeeded in precipitating the economic meltdown and changing the world order by attacking the World Trade Center: 'The [current economic] crisis was slow in co…
Endogeneity/Reflexivity/Circularity/Self-prophesising

We affect our circumstances more than we appreciate. Women do it in their affection for men, speculators affect market fundamentals (no shit!) and name callers affect those who they call names, as well as themselves, act…
36 life-shaping texts

36 texts that shaped my life, in chronological order, and mention of the person who gifted or referred me to the texts. 1) Children's book of tales from the Bible and The Saga of Islam by Adbul Majeed (Baba, doctor, &am…

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