Recently I was reading an article on how the current (YR2015) lead opposition in the largest democracy is plotting to destabilise the working government. While the current government is placing the best efforts of the century to drive the country forward the leading opposition is just behaving like our famous Ambhi (A reason why India fell to foreign invaders).
Leaving the politics aside, I pondered a bit and wondered if this was only to be attributed to politics? Or is it a common Indian behaviour? I might want to reserve my statement's purview to India only, as my experience with the rest of the world is limited.
I started looking in retrospection into my own life. I have recently quit a company which was the longest duration of my stay at one company in my career. I started to pursue my dream and was provided a chance by the CEO to do so. It was either mere luck or years of hard work which unknowingly started falling into place, I was able to take the brand from non-existential to a ferocious and reputable state in few months.
How long is 2 years? I had to jump huge hurdles; mind you not externally, INTERNALLY! So many obstacles were either wilfully created or just happened. Not even one employee with high pay had any accountability; instead all behaved like anti-catalyst.
In spite of crossing 3M USD in 2 years and heading to 10M USD in the next, in Sales, all that the organisation provided was huge resistance to growth. Just as unnatural for a parent to hamper his own kids' future, it is quite cruel for a HR to divide the organisation into parts and finally kill the overall organisation.
The beautiful part: CEO sitting in Utopian land doesn't know what to do.
Les Paribus!
This is quite natural to all people who try to progress and take people to progress are met with, in the world's largest democracy.
We all have heard of the ants in a bottle where one tries to go up and the rest of them are placing all efforts only to pull the ant down.
I am not sure how, yet we all need to cultivate a habit of encouraging and working towards everyone's growth in our kids. May be few generations later we will have a different world.
2 Lively examples to end with:
Mr. Pichai was mentioning about the difference of startups in silicon valley vs. India. He was mentioning about the encouragement an individual in silicon valley receives vs. India.
Russell Peters in one of his shows was explaining how Indians behave when it comes to getting things done. He said Indians are so lazy and it resembles in the number of games we play, especially the ones like soccer etc. He intended to mention that due to our laziness we neither motivate ourselves nor other around us.
Time to seriously think. This is quite the reason why we have very less entrepreneurs and innovators!
Godspeed!
