Time For Lifelong Education Has Arrived

- Rajesh Nair

When you look at today’s business, you have to consider both headlines and trendlines. The headlines are being created by companies like Facebook, Uber, Tumblr, Twitter and Alibaba which defy the normal principles of business modelling and our traditional outlook to assets. These companies have not just edged millions of companies out of business, but fundamentally changed human habits. A middle-aged professional of today is at a very interesting crossroads in his or her career, wherein they see the value of their ‘decades-old experience’ getting redundant gradually as the future course of business demands acquisition of entirely new sets of skills. The stark reality in front of them needs to be understood very differently. Business memory or history today has little to offer in terms of understanding and predicting these unforeseen changes.

Such enormous changes in technology require that education should be in sync with future employment scenarios. Today, a student who enters the portal of employment or entrepreneurship has before him/her some baffling