Perils of higher Education !

Unemployment vs. Education level. (Ref-1)

The times of India article mentions , "Higher your education, harder it is getting a job" .

So true .

The data in the article is converted in the bar-chart for the want of better presentation.

So probably we have one more reason for not going for higher education, and the figures are startling in rural regions. This is unlike the other countries where higher education normally fetches the better opportunities.

This is like a high-light on the recent news article that says - seats for engineering and MBA schools are vacant - as there are more number of students than seats.

Points to really ponder for stakeholders in higher education. 

Ref-1 : Data is picked up from the times of India article : http://ow.ly/ckFfY

Unanticipated Consequence of Productivity tools !

PCMag has interesting article on productivity.  Opening of the article has interesting comment.

Has anyone noticed that the computer revolution has turned its focus from improving productivity to wasting time on trivia?

Isn't it what is termed as unanticipated consequences ? .

For instance :

• Email's were suppose to save our time. It consumes so much time, that Intel had toyed up with  no email days .  French firm Atos  has even extreme stance of "Zero email" .
• Message overloads from desktop notifier, email, smart phones is triggering attention deficit trait.
• Some time back , IIT's had instituted restrictions on internet uses as they found that it hampers the student performance.

As Tablets , i-pad are scheduled to enter classrooms, they will support teaching and learning ,but also will have different kind of challenges for teaching fraternity.  So if you have encountered any of them so far, do post in comments....

Smile - There are so many reasons ...

Interesting talk by Ron Gutman smile - A curve that straightens cranky things ...

(Speech is supported by strong research findings from range of publications, and worth watching . All the studies that he is referring are available here .).

"The next management Guru"

Pathways -my Blog - though little more than one year old - it is still do not have any single subject focus as such . Postings also have sometime too big gap between them .... (Doesn't that happens often on all blogs !! ).

I am using my blog as a public journal of my learning and thought process. And I am still learning the tricks of trades about what to blog ,when to blog and how !. I am neither tracking about readership ( How many ? ) nor its development and I wish to keep this in the same way.

Then I feel elevated when Angushman asked me suddenly to contribute on TNMG.

I feel TNMG is a nice effort particularly in the area of Management and Business studies . And being group blog - there is synergy from different areas of management . Readership is also growing . Few of them comment at different places like Facebook ,twitter or on mail. Reader feedback and comments do motivate one to write more. So I hope I will contribute more in the area of Organization Behavior. So watch the place.

I have two posts on TNMG ,

• Communication - Something that makes life better .
  
• To be MBA or not to be MBA.

and hope to write more ( what should be the ideal target , post a week ? or post a month ?)

East and West - Mythology explains business behavior

I watched this small video on TED , which draws parallels in eastern and western mythology with respective thinking and behavioral patterns. Video is really insightful and fascinating , a kind of must watch. It is inspiring to look at behavioral patterns from this perspective.

It really tells us why the best practices invented in Japanese and American thinking will not work in India . How the culture differs and how it impacts the behavior of individuals and organization.

It surely instigates Indian mind to critic management thinking from different perspective.

Statistics And Context - Presentation

Being research student , we always use statistics in one or other form . Rather we abuse it more than we use. To avoid the pitfalls you may like to see this nice presentation .

This is part of entry in "Best presentation contest" on www.slideshare.net

Why Statistics Need Context

View more presentations from Edward Fidgeon Kavanagh.

You may like to check other nice entries , some of them which really needs mention are

• Simplicity .
  
• How can we feed the world .
• i am gen Y.
• My visual resume.
  

Excellent Presentation - on Social Media

The subject is interesting and appealing ,but additionally the whole presentation is nicely prepared . A excellent case for making self-explanatory impressive presentations ,

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later

View more documents from Marta Kagan.

A case for Statistics !

As a student of science and then engineering , I studied calculus .

I am sure that its true for majority of management students in India , many are from Engineering background. And for all of them Statistics is a shock . Still a bigger shock for non-quanta background students ( like humanities and arts ).

Here is a impressive clip by Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin . He argues the case for Statistics. In a interesting way he explains why calculus forms major part of our mathematical study and more important - why it should be replaced by Statistics . Being a student of management science ,I really appreciate argument and hope statistics will form a major part of basic education in future.



Those who wish to see Arthur's magic check here.

Future Success and Delayed Gratification

Here is interesting experiment ,( And funny too ) - which evaluates delayed gratification and links it with future success. I find it interesting . I wonder whether the traditional Indian wisdom of asking children to wait for everything has links with success ?

More-over - it does mean that self-discipline is really important in all walks of life .

Still experiment raises one question in mind - whether ( in general ) 1/3rd population has more potential for success ?

Chinese Mania of learning English

It is well known fact that India's one of the strength is its English speaking population - but see the way china is bridging the gap - no wonder that it will be world's largest English speaking country soon.

Communication - Excellent short film

What a nice and touching short film about Communication ..

Amazing Inspiring video

Looks like cadbury people have created this - but it is amazingly creative.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - always inspiring

Jonathan Livingstone seagull - by Richard bach which echoes typical vedantic views ( I think ) about continuous learning and development so as to work towards excellence. And gives the message that perfection is not only life-long but passion beyond life.

Achieving your childhood Dream

This is one of the phenomenal and really inspiring lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch. Everyone who wish to achieve his/her dream must watch this .

Forgot to Live ....

I found this on web , somewhere - I think posted by Gautam Ghosh. Picture and the comments are so appealing that I thought of posting them again here.