
It’s all about execution
Foreigners often remind us that Indians are a bright people. But foreigners are too polite to add that Indians can also be ‘over-smart’, and this creates its own problems. We think and argue too much, see too many angles, and don’t act enough. It makes hiring and recruiting talent particularly difficult, for all Indians come out sounding well in an interview, and how do you separate the doers from the talkers? National stereotyping can be dangerous and is usually wrong. We have learned this only too well from the history of the violent 20th century. Hence, I prefer to rely.
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