The demand-supply gap of dreams and realities
Why does India have lesser young entrepreneurs compared to the US or a lot other countries? I think there are two basic issues here; 1)As a preceding generation we are not responsible enough to nurture dreams or to motivate the younger generation 2) Bigger dreams, mostly, are not getting materialized. In this post, I shall try and elaborate on why I think these two issues are prevailing. Though I was introduced to 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs' during my MBA, just like a lot of things introduced to me during that time, Maslow lost to me in my search of 'hierarchy of survival'. Anyhow, I just dug a little bit deeper in to Maslow's pyramid recently and I think it makes sense to me in a wider perspective now. In Indian context it takes a lot of time to reach from the bottom of the pyramid to the top, after which the materialization of big dreams are supposed to happen. When you look at the pyramid, there are physiological, safety, love and esteem levels, bef...