There's an interesting series of lectures on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website. The 'Ideas Lab' discusses new ideas about social entrepreneurship, education, science, etc.(a bit like TED conferences).
I picked out this one from David Ellwood, speaking about how "To meet the challenges of the "new reality", the educational system must help prepare a new breed of exceptional public leaders."
Surely education in general plays an important role to prepare our society for future challenges. However, David's remarks about public leaders' development can -and should- also be applied to leaders in private companies. The interesting bit is that they shouldn't necessarily do so solely to 'be good' (whatever the reason behind that might be) but for their own self interest as well -as away to differentiate themselves from an increasingly competitive world.
The crucial role of education lies in creating these mean to differentiate oneself. China and India are soon to deliver more well educated professionals than the Western world altogether. But this education is based on knowledge and 'hard skills'. So, differentiation will come from innovation, future-orientation and collaboration. It's these skills that we need to focus on in education now, 'knowledge' becomes less relevant.
A thought I will explore more thoroughly next few weeks...
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