Tuesday, September 13, 2016


Can business schools prepare students for a 70-year career?

Source: Andrew Hill  Financial Times 
Illustration by Nick Lowndes
Can business schools prepare students for a 70-year career?


At the World Economic Forum last year, one management professor who was instructing students in their early 20s — some of whom might work into their 90s — was heard lamenting “what can I teach them that will still be relevant in 2085?”
Go back 70 years to appreciate the scale of the challenge. Only in 1947 did the word “entrepreneur” appear in a Harvard Business School course description and even then it was years before it took root. Jeffrey Cruikshank writes in Shaping the Waves, a history of the teaching of entrepreneurship at Harvard, that these “were the modest beginnings of a faculty effort that would take nearly a half-century to come into its own”.
Business schools sometimes like to give the impression that what they teach will endure a lifetime. But as Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott point out in their new book The 100-Year Life , as more people live for a century or even longer, the three traditional stages of a working life — education, career and retirement — will blur and break down.
What are the attributes that an aspiring twentysomething manager might require to thrive over her or his long career? Is it even possible to imagine such skills packaged into a neat curriculum? The most obvious is perhaps the least obviously teachable: adaptability.
As Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors (and a lifer at the carmaker) has pointed out, young people entering the workforce now anticipate, according to some studies, holding as many as 15 or 20 different jobs. “Your success will largely be determined not just by how good your plan is, but how well you adapt to meet the changing needs of the customer,” she wrote in a blog post last year.


As Gratton and Scott note in their book, flexibility is a particular trait of adolescents. Maintaining that adaptability into adulthood will be an important technique for the young generation to master. As the relationship between age and life stage changes, it will be more important than ever for generations to mix. An educational or career experience that does not expose younger workers to older colleagues, and vice versa, will handicap both groups. Business schools like to promote the campus experience over online courses with the argument that group study helps solidify a network that can prove useful later: the wider the span of that network, by gender, ethnicity — and age — the more useful it will be.
Collaboration will be a critical skill for generations that expect to work beyond their 90th year. As Margaret Heffernan, the author and entrepreneur, has written in A Bigger Prize, her book about the dangers of obsessing over competition, “little in our culture trains, rewards or even seems to notice great collaboration”. The most interesting current research on leadership recognises that teams whose members acknowledge the particular expertise of other team members, mostly work better than teams governed from the top down by rigid command-and-control hierarchies.
In fact, the most exciting changes in management are happening from the bottom up, as a wider variety of companies adopt “agile” methods of product and project management borrowed from software developers and start-ups. Willingness to work in autonomous small teams, exercising decision-making power within the framework of a wider project, will be increasingly valuable.
While it is easy to underestimate the inertia of established corporate structures, only a few managers will find their careers mapped out, Mary Barra-style, through one company. Managers will need to gain experience of change, and how to work beyond the traditional corporation, in start-ups, social enterprises, non-governmental organisations and government.

Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), speaks to members of the media during a General Motors Co. Buick event ahead of the 2016 North American Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016
Endurance: Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, has been with the company all her working life
At the same time, managers who want to thrive over their 60- or 70-year careers will need to assimilate softer aptitudes, not only in managing others but in managing themselves, both physically and mentally. A course in mindfulness and meditation may be as beneficial, in the long term, as an understanding of marketing is in the short term.
What of harder knowledge? Susan Athey of Stanford Graduate School of Business found the statistics courses she attended early in her career deathly dull — and she is a gifted mathematician. The “rock stars” of the future, she says, will be managers who not only understand data, but can also explain the significance of statistical analysis to their bosses and teams. Similarly, as cognitive computing advances, being able to use the new tools and to work together with “co-bots”, collaborative robots and advanced software tools, will become essential.
As for what such a curriculum would look like, part of it will be built by the managers themselves. “More people will decide to manage their own learning experiences before they join a corporation,” write Gratton and Scott. “They will keep their options open by becoming an explorer or an independent producer, gathering up experiences and honing their skills, sometimes before embarking on full-time education, sometimes afterwards.”
Collaboration will be a critical skill for generations that expect to work beyond their 90th year

The best educational organisations will recognise this and offer a range of options that allow for the accumulation of vital current specialisations — today, coding; tomorrow, perhaps, applied neuroscience — while staying open to the attributes that may be necessary decades hence.

In this respect, the most important way business schools can future-proof existing courses is by offering existing students options for their future education. Think how useful it would be if courses came with a voucher that students could cash in later — in their 40s, 50s, even as nonagenarians — when they need to acquire knowledge of an area that they, let alone their teachers, cannot imagine today.  

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Monday, September 12, 2016

Putin hopes to destabilise Germany by fuelling tensions over migrants, intelligence chiefs claim


Putin and Merkel 


Source: By JENNY STANTON FOR MAILONLINE



Moscow is fuelling tensions over migrants in Germany using its two million strong Russian-German population, intelligence chiefs have claimed.
Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany's internal intelligence agency, and Guido Müller, deputy head of foreign intelligence, told politicians that Russia is trying to destabilise Germany using the Russian community living there.
News of the meeting comes as Russia lashed out at the EU's handling of the migrant crisis, accusing leaders of wilfully ignoring cultural differences that have caused such widespread friction and chaos across the Continent.
Warning: Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany's internal intelligence agency, and Guido Müller, said Russia is trying to destabilise Germany using the Russian community living there
Warning: Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany's internal intelligence agency, and Guido Müller, said Russia is trying to destabilise Germany using the Russian community living there
Anti-refugee protesters wave German flags and banners reading 'Rapefugees not welcome' at a demonstration in Cologne in January
Anti-refugee protesters wave German flags and banners reading 'Rapefugees not welcome' at a demonstration in Cologne in January

Germany shuts down Islamic centre after raid in Bremen

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According to Bild newspaper, the two intelligence chiefs said Moscow can push the Russian-German population into demonstrating, and is interviewing Russians on state television who say they have left Germany because refugees made them feel unsafe.
They referenced protests following the 'rape' of a Russian-German teenager, which was reported by Russian media.
A Moscow minister also accused police in Germany of covering it up, but it was later discovered the girl had made up the whole story.
Last week, Jānis Sārts, director of Nato’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, told The Observer Russia is trying to topple German Chancellor Angela Merkel by waging an information war.
Speaking as an expert, he said: '[Russia] is establishing a network that can be controlled. You can use it as they have tried to do in Germany, combined with the legitimate issue of refugees, to undercut political processes in a very serious way.' 
Today, Konstantin Romodanovsky, head of Russia's Federal Migration Service, said 'multiculturalism has failed' because Europe never formed a unified strategy to integrate refugees into Western society.
He said: 'The European Commission left it up to individual nations to decide how they want to treat asylum seekers – despite the fact the policies and capabilities of member states are very different.
'The EU does not have an effective system for registering incoming migrants or effective mechanisms for deporting illegal immigrants.' 
As a result, he claims the EU was caught 'unprepared' when hundreds of thousands of migrants first starting arriving on the continent last year.
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He also accused leaders of ignoring the 'differences in culture, religious traditions, and customs' with the refugees, the vast majority of whom are Islamic.
He told RT: 'Practicing family reunification and offering refugees generous benefits without integrating them into the labor market, the EU did not expect that such a great number of people would claim these rights.
'This was clearly a mistake. The policy of multiculturalism has failed.'
He pointed to the mass sex attacks by gang of migrant men on women in Cologne.
He said: 'Note the defiant behavior of refugees and their growing claims and demands. What happened in Germany on New Year’s Eve is a striking example of this.'
His comments came after it emerged Brussels was seeking a deal with Vladimir Putin to stop fuelling the influx of migrants into Europe.
A sharp rise in numbers entering the continent from Russia has led senior officials to plead with Moscow for help.
It comes despite warnings that, by bombing Syria and fuelling the flow of refugees, Russia is 'weaponising' the crisis to 'overwhelm' and 'break' Europe. 




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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Cockroach Theory- A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai.

Cockroach Theory- A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai.

Cockroach Theory- A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai.

Cockroach Theory 
A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai - an IIT-MIT Alumnus and Global Head Google Chrome:
The cockroach theory for self development
At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady.
She started screaming out of fear.
With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.
Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.
The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group.
Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.
The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.
In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.
The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt.
When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.
Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?
If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?
He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.
It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.
I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me.
It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.
More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.
Lessons learnt from the story: 
I understood, I should not react in life.
I should always respond.
The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.
Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of.
A beautiful way to understand............LIFE.
Person who is HAPPY is not because Everything is RIGHT in his Life..
He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards Everything in his Life is Right..!!
Source  Divya Brahmbhatt (CSWE) 
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