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Of all the countries I’ve lived in, India is the most laid back in Proactive mode and absolutely the most charged up in Reactive mode.

After a near lifelong observation and contemplation of this topic, I’ve come to the conclusion that any given society can either be Proactive or Reactive, but not both.

Each society should focus on its strength. Absolutely nothing wrong in Reactive. 30 years ago, Tom Peters posited that the future would belong to companies that were agile and could react quickly to fast moving conditions, etc. Probably the same is true of nations as well.

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This guy happens to be a leading payments consultant in the US.

In India, he’ll be booted out from a payments program meeting in a minute if he anticipates so many issues right at start.

India is resource starved. It cannot afford to spend money on scenario planning and providing for anticipated problems that may never happen. It has to let the chips fall where they might and take it from there.

USA. Jacksonville. Hurricane prone. Every year, drill. People round up their belongings, load them into their SUVs and skip town for 24-48 hours, then come back. So when a real hurricane strikes, they’re better prepared. Ditto terrorism and natural calamities, but not pandemic like coronavirus.

India is also faux positive. Destiny driven. Don’t tempt fate thinking. You’re supposed to think only good things will happen in future.

Against that backdrop, why would you think of bad things in advance and plan for them? In other words, you will not bother about risk management and mitigation strategy, which lie at the heart of a proactive approach.

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An IT company in Pune moved desktop computers from office to homes of 40K employees in one week after Lockdown forced offices to be kept closed. T-Mobile in USA took 4 weeks to do the same thing for just 12K call center staff.