Welcome to the first edition of Early Employee Explorations. In this issue, I share my thoughts on Edtech, Strategic Thinking in Organizations along with an important lesson on triggering changes in our life.
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EdTech Scenario
In my inbox, as part of the medium publication. I received this article.
Edtech Failed the Pandemic Test
TL;DR: The bulk of edtech funding in America has been focussed on adult education while K-12 education did not see much funding. The well-to-do kids’ segment saw an uptick in remote learning and engagement but the middle-class American children were left far behind.
In the case of India, the K-12 education space has really picked up with Byjus and Vedantu. Test prep platform like Unacademy is also seeing headwinds. Adult education paused in the initial stages of the pandemic but now it is slowly picking up.
Closer home in the Indian edtech market. This tweet thread caught my eye.
My take: Education is a hard business… Why? Outcomes take time. Experiment cycles are longer. Your hard work must be matched by the learner’s hard work too to achieve the outcomes.
Strategy in Organization
A very interesting article by Andrew Bartholomew called Learning and Doing Strategy. (Credits to Conor Dewey for helping me discover the article.)
Before what I thought about strategy:
Strategy and Execution are separate. Strategic Thinking defines the execution and how you make the choices.
Now after reading the article
Making strategy and executing strategy are two sides of the same coin. It is a loop - Tough decisions are made through a strategic framework and the outcome of these decisions influence the framework.
Mindfulness
Credits to Om Swami for helping me discover this story and the message behind it.
An engineer was fixing a bell outside a house. Mulla Nasrudin came by, stopped and asked: ‘What is that thing?’
‘Fire alarm’.
‘I’ve seen them before – they don’t work,’ said the Mulla. ‘
What do you mean?’
‘The bell rings all right, but the fire burns just the same.’
Many a time, we mistake that the alarms that signal the crisis in our life are not helping to put out the fires. The trigger for change doesn’t cause change. We have to work positively to bring about that change.
Thanks for reading this. Any thoughts you wish to share? Tweet at me and more than happy to chat.