http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com "Our challenge. How do we create organizational coherence...how do we create structures that move with change, that are flexible and adaptive...that enable rather than constrain? How do we resolve the need for personal freedom and autonomy with organizati... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/empowering-structures-for-business-organizations-1631106.html 02nd July 2010 This article is dedicated to one of the many unsung heroes bringing about a change. His name is Vipul Thaker, a simple man with simple dreams. Without going into his background, let me start from one of his birthdays. It was on that day when he decided he... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/unsung-hero-vipul-thaker-1631096.html 02nd July 2010 "What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."~ Arnold Glasow My wife Girija and I recently visited the Olcott Memorial High School in Chennai. We were shown around by the director, Ms. Lakshmi Suryanarayanan, a highly committed and energe... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/working-with-our-hands-the-importance-of-vocational-education-1631081.html 02nd July 2010 "We can create a more sustainable, cleaner and safer world by making wiser energy choices". ~ Robert Alan The professor was touring villages in Karnataka, gathering information for a program called Sustainable Transformation of Rural Areas. Soil and g... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/turning-wasteland-into-bioenergy-1631062.html 02nd July 2010 "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew". Marshall McLuhan, 1964 My colleague Ashank and I were listening to a presentation by Anmol, a bright young man whose firm had been engaged by Mastek, my company, to study our carbon footpr... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/managing-carbon-emissions-1521229.html 27th April 2010 "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen". ~ Frank Lloyd Wright Several stonemasons were working at a building site, all of them using hammers and chisels to cut stones. Someo... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/finding-meaning-in-work-1521213.html 27th April 2010 "There is wisdom in smallness if only on account of the smallness and patchiness of human knowledge." ~ from "Small is Beautiful - Economics as if people mattered" by E F Schumacher. The financial meltdown has thrown up serious doubts about the sustain... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/reinventing-the-future-small-is-beautiful-1515317.html 23rd April 2010 The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Victor E. Frankl I read the story of Victor Frankl in the early 90's and was deeply moved and inspired. Victor Frankl, as an inmate of a Nazi concentration ... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/choice-the-ultimate-freedom-1495074.html 09th April 2010 "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart, give yourself to it" ~ Buddha The job, as we knew it, is dead. That's from Eamon Kelly of Global Business Network. I agree: we need to find new ways to think and talk about work. The... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/reinventing-work-in-the-21st-century-1495066.html 09th April 2010 Sramana Mitra, in her post ‘Capitalism's Fundamental Flaws', has made a very important point: the capitalistic system is not rewarding the right people - the innovators and creators (read her article at http://bit.ly/48iUHm). Sramana has raised vali... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/do-we-need-capitalism-20-1485171.html 01st April 2010 "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be" ~ Abraham Maslow We were having an argument, but it was one of those arguments you can have with a l fr... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/mass-education-vs-true-calling-1485167.html 01st April 2010 "India is not a poor country. It is a poorly managed country." ~ William Nanda Bissell William Nanda Bissell is an interesting guy with interesting ideas. He is the CEO of Fabindia - a company that sources and markets the products of 40,000 craftspeopl... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/making-india-work-1429147.html 03rd March 2010 "While Montessori education could open up creative channels in my daughter, it will not prepare her for the stress and competitions in the corporate world" ~ Hemalatha Iyer Hemalatha, a member of our New Constructs community, posted her honest assessme... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/alternative-systems-of-education-1429136.html 03rd March 2010 "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." ~ M K Gandhi Money has been the world's primary measure of success over the last 200 years. Nations want bigger GDPs. Corporations want higher market capitalization. And we individua... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/what-if-health-replaced-wealth-as-a-measure-of-success-1429133.html 03rd March 2010 As we enter the Connected Age, our education systems are increasingly falling short. We have carefully crafted and refined the education system, schools, vocational colleges and secular universities, but they are edifices of a different age. There are ... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/education-in-our-networked-future-1402091.html 17th February 2010 "By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man - body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. It is only one of the means whereby man and woman can be educated. Literacy in itself is no... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/gandhis-views-on-education-1402081.html 17th February 2010 "The love of a family is life's greatest blessing" ~ Anonymous. It was a chance encounter at an airport with an old friend. My old friend Sandilya told me that since retiring he had been volunteering as the non-executive chairman of the SOS children'... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/sos-childrens-villages-a-loving-home-for-every-child-1402055.html 17th February 2010 "To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator". Maria Montessori. It was a normal school class - noisy, a little chaotic. A few students paid attention to the teacher standing over them. But most of th... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/models-of-education-the-montessori-method-1402048.html 17th February 2010 "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think". ~ Anne Sullivan. I was conducting a Discover Your True Callin... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/the-3-idiots-of-the-education-system-1373467.html 02nd February 2010 "Bt brinjal (eggplant) gets biotech regulator's approval", said the headline in an Indian newspaper. The story went on to report that a key government committee has cleared the way for the first genetically modified food crop in the country. The compan... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/concerns-about-genetically-modified-food-1355599.html 20th January 2010 "Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling" - Virgil I was invited to speak to the students at the Indian Instit... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/discover-your-true-calling-1355593.html 20th January 2010 "Wealth is the tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery". - Frank Herbert A friend, a successful entrepreneur and long-range thinker, laments that in recent years the best brains have been gravitating toward the financial sector... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/the-mystery-of-wealth-creation-1347616.html 15th January 2010 Imagine that the official length of a meter changed day to day - 80 centimeters today, for example, and 115 centimeters tomorrow. And that every country had its own measure of length - say the meter in India and the yard in the US - and the conversion rat... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/this-funny-thing-called-money-1347615.html 15th January 2010 "3M earnings helped by swine flu mask sales" "Bottled water global sales to cross $85 billion by 2011" The entire family had been looking forward to the Disney World experience, and we were all excited on the plane trip from India to Florida. My d... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/enlightened-economics-valuing-the-truly-valuable-1347612.html 15th January 2010 My wife Girija and I recently visited Isha Vidhya outside Coimbatore, on the recommendation of a friend, Deepak Satwalekar. His description was intriguing: the foundation is using three very different models of education to cater to different sections of ... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/isha-vidhya--three-unique-models-of-education-1347608.html 15th January 2010 "Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland, author. As humans, we have a need to be successful in our own eyes and in the eyes of society. Our definition of success - or more accurately, society's definition of success - is what drives ... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/reinventing-success-in-the-connected-age-1347601.html 15th January 2010 "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack". - Rudyard Kipling The old lion, a couple of lionesses and three playful cubs were just a few yards from our Jeep. The lion and the lionesses lazed in the sun, probabl... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/lessons-from-an-african-safari-1347599.html 15th January 2010 "My idea of Village Swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its wants, and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is a necessity". - M K Gandhi. It could be a movie, but it's true. Born in Kuthambakkam... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/the-other-side-of-globalization--village-self-sufficiency-1347597.html 15th January 2010 "What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful". - Dalai Lama My mother's elderly cousin Neelamani sometimes came to family gatherings, but I knew little about him. We exchanged pleasantries, and that was about it. Recently, however, we found our... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/stories-of-inspiration-five-years-twenty-one-lives-1347595.html 15th January 2010 "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards". - Anatole France The purpose of education is to create responsible, productive and socially contributing citizen... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/the-purpose-of-education-creating-responsible-productive-citizens-1347591.html 15th January 2010 "Independence is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to general idols and fetishes." Mark Twain Based on my studies, my experiences and my own reflections, I see human development as a journey - a steep climb from de... http://sudhakarram.articlealley.com/human-development-independence-is-the-first-step-1347586.html 15th January 2010