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Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by PandaRider on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:12PM (#22197514)
I attended an interview of a major non-tech CEO and he attributed the cultural attitude of Jugaad [0] as the reason why so many CEOs are of Indian descent.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

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Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by pieterk on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:05AM (#22199228)
Makes a lot of sense, an infectious can-do attitude as it may.

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Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by sbmthakur on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:48AM (#22199645)
I don't like to be a downer. But this Jugaad (or hack your way) attitude is one of the reasons why we (Indians) haven't become good at manufacturing stuff (unlike China). The world needs more solutions than hacks.
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Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by Miraste on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:47AM (#22203100)
I don't think Jugaad is a significant factor in that disparity. China has a similiar, and arguably much worse, widespread philosophy called Cha bu duo (close enough)[1], and it doesn't seem to slow them down much.

[1] https://medium.com/@ItsPhilipChang/cha-bu-duo-is-not-what-yo...

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