Flattening world - yet again

These sorts of e-mails STILL just blow me away...

To, Mr  Doug Johnson
Respected Sir,

Please allow me to introduce myself as a Research Associate with a prestigious non-profit Business Education based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. We are dedicated to the cause of educative processes in Business Management, and are engaged in the activity of publishing reference material on contemporary topics in management studies.
 
Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) is a not-for-profit organization established to impart quality education in management and finance. ICFAI Business School (IBS), originally sponsored by ICFAI in 1994, is a constituent of the ICFAI University. Headquartered at Hyderabad with Twelve Centers spread across the country, IBS is committed to promote quality education, research, training and consultancy in Management discipline. In its endeavor to keep pace with the changing trends and new developments, IBS has been instrumental in the development of new and innovative PG level Programs on a two year full-time basis to focus on specific key areas of business.
 
As part of this initiative, the IBS Centre at Bangalore has established the Centre for Academic Excellence for raising the standards of knowledge creation and dissemination through research and publication in the area of Business Management. It caters to the information needs of students, teachers and practitioners of management. Our publications are priced to recover the cost of editing, printing and distribution and not for making profits. Any surplus over and above the costs is included in the publication/academic pool for the above referred objectives only. Further details about our books are available on our website at http://www.icfaipress.org/books. <http://www.icfaipress.org/books> 
 
I have just read through a few of your articles/writings and have found all of them absolutely fascinating. I am of the opinion that these articles will render themselves as excellent material for our students.
 
May we please request your kind permission to reprint the article titled  "The knowledge worker redux" co-authored  in one of our forthcoming publication on The Complexities of Managing Knowledge Workers. We will acknowledge the source with due respect as per your suggestion. Do provide us with your postal address so that we can send you a copy of the book as soon it is published. 
 
I look forward to an early and positive response from your office in this matter.
 
Thanking You,
Yours truly
 
Thanking you in advance,
Yours sincerely,
Shilpa B
Research Associate
ICFAI Business School, Centre for Academic Excellence
Annex III, 63/A, 13th cross, 6th main
J.P Nagar 3rd phase
Bangalore-5600078   India
Tel: 080-26493697
Fax: Fax: 91- 080 - 26493696
Web: www.ibsindia.org <http://www.icfaipress.org/books>

 So when all the jobs are gone in the U.S., does this mean I may have an "in" in Bangalore? 

Comments

[Jeff Utecht]

So Doug, just how big is your office staff. :)

It's funny how weird stuff like this is. I just received a comment from a High School student on my blog, a first for me!

Jeff

[Doug Johnson]

Hi Jeff,

I've received a whole bunch of fairly brainless responses from students for my "Proposal for Banning Pencils" blog entry. Pretty funny, but makes you wonder...

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2005/9/28/rules-for-pod-people-and-a-proposal-for-banning-pencils.html

All the best,

Doug