Sunday
25, January 2015 1700 hrs
Even
as US president Barrack Obama and Indian Prime Minister meet in New Delhi today
and in the next couple of days, and everyone eagerly waits for announcement of
bilateral agreements on various fronts, I will be patient and will look out for
indications that both leaders have indeed thought out of the box, for economic
development and world peace (read counter-terrorism).
And
so as I wait, my mind is exercised on a more localised challenge – is there a
way by which current initiatives to foster entrepreneurship across India make a
quantum sustainable leap in the impact? How does one re-engineer the DNA of
entrepreneurship in India? The more I think on this, I am intrigued by a typical
mental picture of a Johari window of a hypothetical Indian entrepreneur Raju.
What are Raju’s feelings about himself and his venture…What do others (family,
friends, colleagues, partners) think of Raju and his venture…What does Raju believe
about how other perceive him and his venture, and…How do others perceive about
Raju’s belief in their “buy-in” to his venture.
The
topography of Venn-answers, revealing the arena, facade, blind spot and
unknowns for each substantive element of Raju’s entrepreneurial journey thus
far, should give us a model of the current DNA of entrepreneurship and expose
the fault-gap-lines that will need to be innovatively fixed, and the DNA
re-engineered to ensure it replicates adequately and sustainably.
I
intend to spend some additional time in exploring this line of thought during the
coming week. Wishing you, as usual a great
week ahead.
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