How To Turn Executives Into Wizards

Why this play of words with such a serious issue? It's not just a play of words, but the first step in exciting scientists and engineers to take India to the top of the ranking of scientific nations. The words research and development connote some very complex and high-level intellectual processes in which only a few thousand 'geniuses' work, while millions of science, engineering and technology graduates and professionals are rarely involved. They remain uninformed about what happens behind the doors of those 'hallowed' buildings, often with unwelcoming boards that say ‘Entry Restricted'.      What are the achievements of the activities of the select few 'geniuses' in R&D? Not very inspiring and nor highly commendable. What is the basis for such a negative picture? Jealousy? Ignorance? Not at all. It is based on overwhelming evidence. In spite of India having the distinction of the world’s highest number of engineers graduating each year, the countr...

It was brought to our attention that there is one more gap in our coverage of the elements of the circular figure listing several 'quotients'. That is the 'creativity quotient'. "There's nothing obvious about it, except that everyone aspires to be creative. But only a few are clear about what exactly is involved and what are the sources of creativity?". This is the gist of an interaction with another group of executives to get feedback about our last posts. So this blog post is devoted to explaining creativity and vision. According to Lexico, creativity means "the use of imagination or original ideas to create something". Creativity also means  "adding a first-ever new thing to the world".  It could be a piece of art, a novel car or a new service like Uber or space travel as Elon Musk plans to introduce soon. But where and how do you get the idea of that 'new thing'?   Well, creativity is a process but the starting point is ...