IndianMaze

"Things take forever to change in India" is a common phrase heard amongst India watchers. Being an Indian, I am tempted to respond that at least India has been trying! However, that is not a good enough response from a management practitioner. Going through the history of independent India, a large number of large scale programmes have been launched. All of them with very noble intentions but have been rather slow (very very slow) in achieving the stated objectives.  There is a change that one observes in the recent past. This article is to show the contrast in the achievement of programmes with very strong lessons for the Business Teams to take home the message that Indians have evolved and continue at a much faster pace like a S curve. I will take 2 examples each from the long past and recent past to demonstrate the change. 1. Indian Elections and voters India jump started the democratic process early in her independent life with first national elections held with