Following my post on the future of employment, it seems logical that we talk about the future of control. Starting with the early days of the industrial revolution, the information revolution and the now emerging 2.0 revolution one system that is being seriously torn apart is the system of control. In a world full of [...]
I was reading the 2009-10 Employment-Unemployment Report published by the Ministry of Labor, Govt. of India. Employment is and will continue to be a significant issue, especially in a country where the proportion unemployed is estimated at 34 persons per 1000 population (as per the Report) For starters, I come from a family of bureaucrats [...]
Much is being talked about in education reforms. For me for the rubber to hit the road these need to move far beyond just opting out of examinations at the 10th grade. Education and Learning needs to cater to the natural aspirations of learners in a global context. On the long road of life-long learning [...]
Nancy King (professor emeritus at the University of Delaware) talks about her personal experiences developing and using the collaborative story-making process with young people and adults in various school settings. King invites other educators to include collaborative story-making in their instructional repertoire to stimulate their own and their students’ imagination, reading, writing, and speaking skills, [...]
Who owns your ideas? Companies have vision, mission, values. Every company should and most companies do. One of the oft quoted values that I have come across is “Respect for People”. There is perhaps no better example of execution of this value than Toyota. At the heart of the Toyota Management System is instilling the [...]
