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We,
Indians, suffer from three disabilities, viz.
(1)
We do not have brevity of expression.
(2) We do not take decision.
(3) We do not have value of time.
The
writer has reached to the above conclusion after he visited U.S.A.
in 1995. Every Indian is very competent and hard working only out
of India, where there is hire and fire. In foreign country, he snatches
the business of native of country and supports his own business.
He is capable of adjusting with the environment of the new country.
In India, he adjusts with the above disabilities.
Sir Alvin Toffler in his book "POWER SHIFT" (1990) has
classified fast decision economies and slow decision economies.
He has observed, "Since the end of World-War-II, the world
has been split between capitalist and communist, North and South.
Today, as these old divisions fade in significance, a new one arises.
To be fast or slow is not simply a matter of metaphor. Whole economies
are either fast or slow." "In fast economics, advanced
technology speeds production. But this is the least of it. Their
pace is determined by the speed of transactions, the time needed
to take decisions (especially about investment), the speed with
which new ideas are created in laboratories, the rate at which they
are brought to market, the velocity of capital flows, and above
all the speed with which data, information and knowledge pulse through
the economic system. Fast economies generate wealth and power faster
than slow ones; "By contrast, in peasant societies economic
processes move at a glacial pace. Tradition, ritual, and ignorance
limit socially acceptable choices. Communications are primitive;
transport, restricted. Before the market system arose as an instrument
for making investment choices, tradition governed technological
decisions. Tradition, in turn relied on "rules or taboos to
preserve productive techniques that were proven workable over the
slow course of biological and cultural evolution, according to economist
Don Lavoie."
"But
the most acute shortage facing LDCs is that of economically relevant
knowledge. The 21st Century path to economic development and power
is no longer through the exploitation of raw materials and human
muscle, but as we've seen, through application of the human mind."
Above paragraphs are quoted to point out that Less Developed Countries
(LDCs) suffer from disability as leaders are incapable of taking
decisions and if the decisions are taken, bureaucrats will try their
best not to implement good suggestions if their power and positions
are in conflict with new project or system. The few examples which
prove above conclusions.
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