This is an old magazine that I finally pulled out of the drawers and read through. The information is now a year old so there were only a few things I wanted to take out of it.
Initiative represents Bombay's- and India's- advantage over its competitors "it's people who make countries, not governments".
The above quote sticks with me because it may very well be what gives any one group an advantage over another. If we think back on the history of America we had one advantage over the rest of the world, we took initiative and did things. This can be said too for just about anything from a high-school that invests heavily in its football team to an individual that suddenly finds themselves ahead of everybody they once associated with... the only difference is somebody took initiative and did it first.
So now the question becomes, can they keep it and how do we make sure we are able to ride their wave of initiative? Change, change what you do, change professions, find an open market and feed it. This is so important because taking a chance is what America has been known for (Think Wild West) and good or bad, we need to drive change, not just ride it. Act as an individual if you must but drive the society and have others help you move change through new initiatives.
Globombed (by Wipra): Outsourcing of a job. I used to work for a NOC in California but it was globombed and I relocated my family here to Texas and I now work in a Data Center.
We realized no one was going to descend from the heavens to solve our problems, and we were going to have to do it ourselves.
Anything I could say about this comment is already said in the first section.
