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发帖数: 100 | 1 "Treating people with respect comes very naturally to Indians," he said. "
People from homogenous societies need that as an acquired skill."
The respect showed through small gestures when running his own software
startup, Shukla said. He'd offered his ear especially to employees who weren
't talking much. He kept decision-making open-ended in favor of blanket
policies. It added up to more viewpoints and greater success, he concluded.
Last year, Nadella was the first male CEO to address the annual Grace Hopper
Celebration for Women in Computing. He committed a self-admitted goof
onstage, saying women shouldn't ask for raises but rather trust that they
will come their way.
He acknowledged later that imputing his own experience to others was "
insensitive."
It's the same mix of humility and respect that keeps Naghi Prasad in the
office until midnight some days even though he doesn't have a deadline
bearing down. His father had been a linguistics researcher who emphasized
that when he asked his team to work, he did too.
"He wanted me to lead by example, to walk the walk," said Prasad, who
recently sold his Silicon Valley ad tech company to Rakuten Marketing and
became its senior vice president for mobile.
Staying behind as a show of support also demonstrates what he saw in a large
Indian family: The success of individuals is crucial to the success of the
family, so it's important to acknowledge the work of others.
Balancing respect with the Silicon Valley ethos of going all out to succeed
isn't easy. But Indian tech leaders said they think expertise on both fronts
gives them an edge, that competitive drive emerges naturally in a country
with a billion people and limited opportunities.
"Government corruption, noise, pollution, traffic - every which way you go
it's problem, problem, problem," Wadhwa said. "To survive, you have to be
creative."
Unlike the people in some cultures, Indians learn to challenge authority, a
legacy of the country's fight for independence from Britain. Indians learn
English in school, and because the best-educated speak it fluently, they
assimilate well into global-oriented businesses, where English is the
primary language.
All these advantages belong to the cream of the crop, in a country deep in
poverty and beset with enormous social problems, of course.
"You don't leave behind a middle-class existence to become dirt," Wadhwa
said. "They are the top 1 percent of India, and now you put them in the
fertile ground of Silicon Valley and you have the magic."
With more U.S.-educated Indians choosing to return to India to start
companies, there's concern a brain drain might cause the Indian influence to
wane. Several startups in India have surpassed $1 billion valuations on the
private market, and they're poaching some top Silicon Valley executives.
But the Indians who stick around have one trend to be excited about. Smart
technology leaders with enough business sense are increasingly being
elevated in companies, giving a leg up to Indians who traditionally have
fewer sales and marketing skills. That's part of why Pichai quickly rose up
through the ranks at Google over the last 11 years. Shukla called it a
tribute to Google and Microsoft that Pichai and Nadella had reached the top
positions.
"They are relentless in identifying talent in early stages of their careers
and providing opportunities for people who are so different to end up at the
top," he said. "It's a reflection of the meritocratic cultures of these
companies."
There's another positive sign too. About a third of the 2 million people in
the Indian diaspora in the U.S. are children of immigrants, according to the
Migration Policy Institute.
Wadhwa worried a decade ago whether the next generation would be as
successful, but he's realizing as his son's generation nears its 30s that
they are on a path to be strong performers. Success stories include Indian
born but Toronto-raised Apoorva Mehta, who's grocery delivery startup
Instacart has been valued at more than $2 billion by its investors.
"The second generation has the best of both worlds," Wadhwa said. "They have
my values yet all the American advantages. They can achieve the same as my
generation at much younger age."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-indian-immigrants-tech-industry.html#jCp | f*******g
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: "Treating people with respect comes very naturally to Indians," he said. "
: People from homogenous societies need that as an acquired skill."
: The respect showed through small gestures when running his own software
: startup, Shukla said. He'd offered his ear especially to employees who weren
: 't talking much. He kept decision-making open-ended in favor of blanket
: policies. It added up to more viewpoints and greater success, he concluded.
: Last year, Nadella was the first male CEO to address the annual Grace Hopper
: Celebration for Women in Computing. He committed a self-admitted goof
: onstage, saying women shouldn't ask for raises but rather trust that they
: will come their way.
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