In praise of the right brain

March 26, 2006 on 3:58 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

Last year I was on the jury of the McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review, a monthly journal for managers. This wasn’t easy work because I was forced to read every single article in the magazine in 2005 when I would much rather have been reading a novel. Besides, I have always believed that business is more about doing and less about reflecting. I was amused to find so many of the best articles had Indian names attached to them, and I thought with a smile, India is not only producing spiritual gurus but also “business gurus”. But I am sceptical of this latter ‘guru’, and sometimes wonder if the acronym stands for someone “Good at Understanding, but Relatively Useless”. Continue reading…

Deeper into India’s soul

March 12, 2006 on 4:02 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

‘How is it that so many Indians are making it in the global economy?’ This was a common refrain during President Bush’s recent visit.   I looked for answers in India’s education system for a recent essay for an American magazine, and concluded that success belonged to students rather than teachers, and the real victory might lie with parents and their middle class insecurities—it’s a rare Indian mother who will step out of the house in the evening during exam season. Continue reading…

A LEARNING CURVE – What’s behind India’s success in the global knowledge economy? One key is the boom in private schools for all

March 10, 2006 on 11:58 am | In Magazine, Newsweek Magazine | No Comments

Two weeks ago I got a call from the board member of one of the world’s largest consulting companies, who invited me to come and speak to them about why so many Indians were making it in the global knowledge economy. My distinguished caller spoke about innovations emerging from General Electric and Microsoft’s R&D centers in Bangalore; advanced avionics installed by India’s Air Force on Russian fighter aircraft that had caught the U.S. defense establishment’s attention; sophisticated research on global capital markets outsourced by Wall Street to India; finally, he rattled off a dozen Indian leaders’ names in global multinational corporations. Continue reading…

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