Few weeks back during the dinner table, my kid asked a very pertinent question. "Appa, you started working on the ICE engines when I was in Kindergarten. Then you moved to Telematics & Connected cars. Today you are working in EV. Is there an end to this journey?"
As any parent, I wanted to answer this as "development is a journey to an unknown destination". Then I took a step back and wanted to understand myself what is development? I went back a little and saw that the Industrial revolution in Britan killed the Chennapatna Toys in South Inda. Many of the policy makers then said it was an inevitable trade-off for development. I wasn't convinced and then went a little back in time, 60 million years back. We were just apes jumping from one branch to another. Then without warning one day we suddenly decided to take to the grounds. We then started to walk uprightly. It was development but in that due course we lost some of our monkey abilities. The trade-off exisited then too.
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AuthorVasudevan is a Leadership Mentor and an Executive coach. I run an online website geared towards helping creative entrepreneurs and future managers to build their dreams. Archives
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