The most conventional myth that overruns the west with regard to working in India goes as, ‘one has to unlearn a lot of the wisdom that you have acquired while in working in the west’. Endless articles have been written preaching and analyzing the same. There was one written on the cultural differences between east (read India) and the west. Quite a strange khichdi (that’s an Indian term for ‘a mix’), nai?

The article I am talking about here went at length about the hierarchical nature of business in India and why one should not try and change it. Interestingly, it quoted that any attempt to do so will be seriously frustrating. But then what about the new India with a 9% growth in GDP and all the IT professionals wracking their brains all day and all night? Agreed, an empowered, flat structure with no hierarchy would be the ideal western dream for India. But don’t you think, we are getting there? I would be lying if I say that Indian business is not about hierarchy but then I would also be lying when I say that situation isn’t changing drastically.

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