Sudhakar Ram

Empowering Structures For Business Organizations

"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... Read >

Unsung Hero: Vipul Thaker

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... Read >

Working With Our Hands: The Importance Of Vocational Education

"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... Read >

Turning Wasteland Into Bio-Energy

"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... Read >

Managing Carbon Emissions

"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... Read >

Finding Meaning In Work

"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... Read >

Reinventing The Future: Small Is Beautiful

"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... Read >

Choice: The Ultimate Freedom

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 ... Read >

Reinventing Work In The 21st Century

"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... Read >

Do We Need Capitalism 2.0?

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... Read >

Mass Education Vs. True Calling

"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... Read >

Making India Work

"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... Read >

Alternative Systems Of Education

"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... Read >

What If Health Replaced Wealth As A Measure Of Success?

"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... Read >

Education In Our Networked Future

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 ... Read >