opus_bkgrnd_contentBoxTop_select opus_bkgrnd_contentBoxTop_over
Training people like to take.

May 27, 2009

Is He Nuts or Just Out of Touch?

Eduardo Castro-Wright is the vice-chairman of Wal-Mart Stores. He was interviewed recently by the New York Times. In that interview he said:

"I think all of us read far too many business books."

Seriously? Let's consider a few of the published statistics:

42% of college graduates never read another book after college

70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.

Doesn't seem to me that reading is the problem.

posted by Jack Hayhow at 9:19 AM
share using: digg | facebook | technorati | del.icio.us | rss