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Wed, 04 May 2005

Brain Drain -- version 2.0
Yesterday bunny asked if I had some "ultimate opinions in life", something that I keep thinking of [about my future?]... and before I could say anything much he asked me my opinion about 'management studies'. My answer, as most of you can guess was "management? forget it!"

We had a small discussion following it which was mostly about why good techies go to become bad managers, and today bunny found me a link that essentially summarizes our discussion.

A long time ago, people used to go to the US for a few simple reasons: better lifestyle, more prestige, and more money to be made. This used to be called "brain drain".

We've come a long way since then, and that migration has sort of reversed recently, both because India has gotten better, and because the US has gotten worse.

But has anyone else noticed an equally disturbing trend lately? I see quite a few techies going to management schools (aka "B Schools").


The title to this post was taken from the same article. The complete article is available here.
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