The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker Some months back, my son was lying down and reading in his room with his light source behind him. As usual, I started to shout at him and said the light should always shine from your left. Then he looked sharply at my face and asked "Why?". I responded to him "Look, you have a long time to go and your eyesight should be good." He returned to his book "Appa, my eyes are fine. What are you worrying about?" I said "Sustainability. Can your eyes take this sort of abuse" He immediately dropped the book "What do you mean by Sustainability?" I wanted it to be simple, so I gave this explanation. Sustainability consists of fulfilling the need of current without compromising future requirements. "Yeah yeah, I know that" my son replied nonchalantly. "Why this cynicism?" "Look here" he showed the book to me. It was Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. "This book says that the move to become an agrarian community is not a good move" I started to nod while he continued "I know you will negate me". He paused for a while "But is there something about this issue in our ancient scriptures?"
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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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