The Engineer of 2020 As our engineered world moves to complexity, unprecedented in history and largely unanticipated in the early and middle phases of the industrial era, engineering itself is becoming more complex. Even those aspects of human enterprise that are closest to raw nature, agriculture and animal husbandry, are increasingly technologized. Their steadily rising […]
Read more >The on demand economy In 1998, HBR published an article titled “Dawn of the E-lance economy” by Thomas W. Malone and Robert J. Laubacher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The authors look at how a new kind of organisation could form the basis of a new kind of economy – an e-lance economy – […]
Read more >The ultimate source of wealth – Dykes Charles, Foundation for Economic Education www.fee.org (August 1, 1985) What, then is ‘wealth’? For the economist, wealth is anything having economic value measurable in price. For most people, wealth means great amounts of worldly possessions. For nearly everyone, wealth is synonymous with money. From the perspective of history, […]
Read more >Big brother is watching you at the workplace Employee monitoring is often in conflict with employees’ privacy. Monitoring in the workplace may put employers and employees at odds with each other because both sides are trying to protect their own personal interests. Employees want to maintain privacy while employers want to ensure that company resources […]
Read more >The future of work: 10 skills you will need to be successful – Institute for the future (2020). “Future work skills : 2020”Ten skills for the future workforce: Sense making : ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed Social intelligence: ability to connect with others in a deep and […]
Read more >The threat of a jobless world – Frey Thomas (July 27th, 2012) People are seriously worried. I’ve been in a number of conversations recently where people are very worried about our coming era of automation where fewer and fewer jobs will be left for people to do. A few months ago I predicted that over […]
Read more >The stages of growth discussed in an earlier question holds very critical insights for educational milestones and developmental strategies for children.The first implication of the stages of growth is that by the time a child is adolescent, she must have done well on the developmental milestones of the childhood and juvenile stages. The three more […]
Read more >The current school system can be traced back to the early 18th century Prussia, Germany. The first school for mass education, i.e. education of all children, in a community (hence called ‘public school’) was created in 1716 by the King Fredrick William-I as a means of solidifying the fledgling Prussian state into a uniform whole. […]
Read more >The pre-adult stages of growth for humans are infancy, childhood, juvenile and adolescence. Let us register the key features of each stage:Infancy – complete dependence stageInfancy (derived from the Latin word infans, means “unable to speak”) is period of growth of human offsprings when they are completely dependent on their caregivers (e.g. parents, elder siblings, […]
Read more >Let us recollect the meaning of social and emotional development. It is defined as the process through which we recognise and manage our emotions to establish healthy relationships, seek ‘happy-endings’ positive goals, behave ethically and accountably and control negative behaviours.The social and emotional competence developed in the first few years (childhood) dictates a child’s ability […]
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