Saturday 12 April 2008

Day Zero - The New Beginning...

Dear Readers,

Welcome to my first "Experience Speaks" blog. A nice saturday morning in Brussels, with birds chirping around, it's summer around the corner. A hot coffee and some croissant to help with my thought process. Finally after two months of wait since my first registeration of this blog, I have finally decided to start penning down my experiences. I was looking for a perfect start, but later realized that perfection is just a matter of discipline.

I am an Indian, and the things I have experienced staying in Brussels for a little more than two years are more or less the same that I have experienced staying in Mumbai and Pune (India). It's a strange feeling to know that the world has changed a lot in the past decade around me. What was a distant dream of visiting far-off places, that I had read about only in books, is a reality now. The world has indeed gone Flat. Yes, that's the subject I would touch upon for this blog session.

Given my engineering background and my professional interests, I find this idea of a fast moving world, high-end cutting edge technology and changing strategy quiet interesting. Global practice is changing the basic assumptions that each organization has put forth and the policies that the government makes every few years. With all these changes happening quiet frequently, and with the markets tumbling around, marking the black period of U.S economy, 2008, it's right time to be in business. It's the right time to make most of the opportunities and most of the skills one possess. And that is why I anchored to start my blog on Thomas L. Friedman's - The World is Flat.

I personally consider it to be one of the top 10 books I have ever read, and given that I am a science fiction fan, I highly recommend you take a look at it. The readings have really changed my thought process and the perceptions about the life in general that revolves around me.

More to feature in my next blog...

Regards,
Anand

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