This question is very interesting as well as significant. For instance, the growing middle class is a cause of cheer and attraction of the world towards India as a business destination and it is setting a virtuous cycle of economic growth. However, the growing middle class is not an unmitigated bliss; many of our current […]
Are you a political junkie? Are you interested in politics, but don’t have the slightest interest in becoming a politician? As election cycles get longer and longer, opportunities abound for those interested in a career in the political arena. You may work a lot of hours and it can be stressful, especially at election time, […]
Education has become fairly expensive in absolute terms and calls for better planning of finances. There is an interesting twist, however, to the whole context, goals, and the process of higher education – the best quality higher education could increasingly be organised outside formal classrooms! And at the prices comparable to 1990s levels and lesser! […]
Big Data And Analytics Will Fundamentally Change How Public Services Are Produced And Consumed In Urban Areas Over The Next Few Years, And Many Cities Expect The Chief Innovation Officer To Figure Out How Best To Adapt To This Fast-Evolving Landscape. Dallas is looking to hire a “Chief Innovation Officer.” The job ad says the […]
A very pertinent question in the context of increasing disposable income of parents but reducing ‘quality time’ within families, there is no definite positive correlation between children’s grades and their parents’ investment in them. An interesting article titled “Financial help from parents leads to fall in students’ grades”, by Tamar Lewin, January 16, 2013, in […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. There are two parts to this question – How do I know that my child knows everything (academic)? How can a child, who is in the know of things, fail to […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. Hope you are a brave heart and really love your child to read the following and yet get a feeling of gratitude – the poor attention span of your child is […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. All kinds of ‘truisms’ abound on ‘how to appreciate’ your child (or not to). Shying away from such views and suggestions, we want to focus on ‘what to appreciate’ for. We […]
In a conversation with MicroStrategy CMO Mark Gambill, he described the rise of a new type of role—the chief data officer (click here for article). As part of that conversation, he suggested I talk with Matthew Thomas, CDO, Pandera Systems, a leader in helping firms deliver analytics and automated decision capabilities, to better understand why […]
Let us start with a confession. We know very little about how we learn! And least of all, about the formative years 0-3 and 3-5. We split the 0-5 years developmental phase into two because, according to the more accepted theory (our knowledge about brains is still all fluid), a child’s brain rapidly grows in […]
