Indian Marriage!

Couple of days back I was having discussion with one of my colleague about management issues that we see commonly in many organizations... and the one which we were discussing profoundly was "lack of clarity in many of the things".

I was on one end trying to convince him that the most important thing that a manager & his team should be aware of is clarity of his project and benefits the organization is going to get from his (or his team's) work. He had slightly different view that, in Indian way of managing, manager would never like to give clarity of many of aspects of project, and in many cases he would not be informed well by his manager providing clarity of goals or benefits of a particular effort.

For me, it was a big surprise that it could happen in that way. To convince me, he gave numerous examples from both Govt and private organizations about how managers work there and suggested that there exists a book on this topic..

Well.. after giving much thought to discussion, I think its Indian way of doing things... I remember a beautiful analogy given by Edward Luce in his book to Indian marriage.. "its like a group of honeybees who are flying, if you look at each individual bee, it would appear that its going nowhere and flying in random direction, but if you look at whole group of honebees, you would certainly realize that they are flying in one particular direction."