Chapter 155 I was stunned by the number of books read by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra

I think this is also a manifestation of modern quality, that is, the amount of reading.Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand who is now in exile in the UK (it is said that he could not even get a visa later), has read so much that I am amazed. After Thaksin stepped down, he bought Manchester City in the Premier League for about 200 billion yen, which shocked the whole world.When I met him, it was the last period of his tenure as Prime Minister. In fact, on September 19, 2006, the morning Thaksin stepped down, I had dinner with him (of course, he never imagined that he would never return to his motherland that day).

He said to me before, "I hope you can help me with Thailand's national policy", "I hope you can help me make Thailand's per capita GDP reach 5,000 US dollars", and then I went to Thailand. During my conversation with him, I was amazed that he had read all of the good books I mentioned on modern business.For example, Daniel Pink's Whole New Mind, Prahalad's The Fortune at the bottom of the Pyramid, Jonas Redstraw's The principle of success has changed! ", etc., he is very familiar with it. Of course, he also read my book.It was because he read my book "A World Without Borders" that he invited me here.

He said: "I want to ask you how to push Thailand's economy onto the world stage." Although Thaksin is a person who reads a lot, he does not belong to the school of classical literacy.Because he has read all the books written by people who are at the forefront of the world, it should be said that they are thinkers in the 21st century.I think it is really remarkable to be able to do this. I am afraid that Japanese politicians have not read more than 1/10 of the books he has read. Speaking of Japanese politicians, Hiroshi Kato compiled "Commanding Heights" into a textbook. This is a book describing Thatcher's revolution, and it can also be said to be a textbook about Thatcher's small government. , The next two volumes are published in Japanese.

Kato said that this book is also his previous textbook.However, in my opinion, for a politician, "Commanding Heights" is common sense.Despite Kato's common sense, few politicians have read this book.This should not be the quality level that Japanese politicians should have!