Vision of Vichaar
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Today, I would like to discuss the vision of Vichaar. When we go for an interview there is a question that is asked "Where do you see yourself after 5 years", and this question confused me. After working in the industry and then becoming a product manager I realized the importance of vision.
Let's try to understand vision with the help of some examples:
Google's corporate vision is “to provide access to the world's information in one click.” The company's nature of business is a direct manifestation of this vision statement. For example, Google's most popular product is its search engine service
Facebook: To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
Microsoft's corporate vision is “to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.”
IBM's corporate vision is “to be the world's most successful and important information technology company. Successful in helping out customers apply technology to solve their problems. Successful in introducing this extraordinary technology to new customers.
Siemens Vision Statement: The main aim of the Vision 2020+ company strategy is to give Siemens individual businesses significantly more entrepreneurial freedom under the strong Siemens brand in order to sharpen their focus on their respective markets.
So now I believe you have understood what is Vision?Now let me go back to the past so that you are able to understand vision of Vichaar.
India was called Sone ki Chidiya or the golden bird but why was it called so? : Ancient India, before colonization was what we see today, as Silicon Valley.
India was a marketplace where people from all countries came, India was producer of goods which were exported to different markets.
The Indian economy prospered due to it being highly entrepreneurial. Why was India's economy highly entrepreneurial because of India's education system that focused on practical learning rather than rote learning approach.
After British came to India, they devised a strategy to destroy India's education system by introducing rote learning approach which created a nation of clerks and job seekers.
The problem is not in becoming a job seeker the problem lies in adopting a mindset of job seeker which causes a dependency syndrome, where we always live in fear.
2 years back when I was planning to go to Oxford I saw that they don't have a placement cell and I was astonished, now I realized purpose of education is to make one independent and interdependent
So how can we become Atmanirbhar the only way to become independent and interdependent is to inculcate an entrepreneurial mindset.
Nalanda University was Stanford of the world, it had a practical curriculum which helped students to gain real-time skills.
The vision of Vichaar is to recreate the Nalanda ecosystem where students become entrepreneurs and job creators.
Today India enjoys huge demographic dividend, average age of our population is 28 years, which makes India a young country.
Today we face lack of job opportunities in market, and the only way more jobs can be created is by creating job creators.
Product Marketing Leader & Business Consultant - B2B
4 年Kunal, what a grand vision!! Compliments. I feel what differentiated the Indian ecosystem during that era was Vedic culture and pursuit of knowledge. Nalanda was under the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna systems of philosophy which guided ‘pursuit of knowledge’. I think it’s very important to make a distinction between Knowledge and education here. The learning philosophy then was guided by spirituality and hence pursuit of knowledge was to gain wisdom- that path naturally led to freedom of invention and innovation- but at the core was an effort to understand the world, the human body , the surroundings and hence a single student maybe exposed to fields as diverse as mathematics, Vedic logic, botany, medicine etc .. Today education is a mere system of instruction for mechanical pursuits .. a systemic failure. So if the vision is to create “an ecosystem of innovation as per Nalanda” then that needs an overhaul of the current means of gaining knowledge. Agree that experimentation, apprenticeship etc will lead the way. More power to your vision.