Knowing the Rules and Learning the Ropes Navigating the 4Cs – Culture, Conundrum, Corruption, Creativity
Contents
1. Business and Economic Environment 5
3. Cacophony / Conundrum by Design. 13
6. Innovation and Unwritten Rules. 18
12. Unease of Doing Business – Shaking Confidence Level 26
13. Creativity in Problem Solving. 27
14. Medieval Culture, Mobocracy. 29
17. Corruption: Weapon of Mass Destruction – Recipe for Societal Suicide. 32
20. Catalysts for Corruption. 35
21. Character of Corruption. 36
22. Boundary of Corruption. 39
25. Target Segment of Corruption. 43
26. Well-Oiled Corruption Infrastructure. 44
28. Surveys and Monitoring. 46
29. Superficial Efforts at Containing Corruption. 47
30. Collateral Developments (Damages) from Corruption. 48
32. Corruption in Government Employment (Lucrative Safe Heaven). 51
34. Conflict of Purpose and Means. 53
35. Real Role of Intermediaries. 54
36. Disconnect With External World. 55
37. Corruption and Human Values. 56
38. Game Plan to Extract Rent 57
40. Consequences of Corruption in Various Spheres. 59
41. Social and Economic Cost of corruption. 64
42. Irreversible Damage to Our Psyche – Emotional Costs. 66
43. Institutions for Tackling Corruption. 67
44. Incapacitating the Institutions. 69
45. Manifestations of Corrupt Practices. 71
About the Book
This short book on Doing Business in India – Knowing the Rules and Learning the Ropes – Navigating the 4Cs – Culture Conundrum Corruption Creativity; is an informed informal practical narrative on the larger ecosystem for Doing Business in India; a democracy that became independent in mid-20th century, that hasn’t fully recovered from the feudalistic hangover and evolved a character of its own, but still lurks in the shadow of pre independence thinking and practices driven largely by vested interests, who prefer to perpetuate the colonial practices as it suits them, enabled by a large diverse ignorant population with little exposure, who probably believe that is the way to it.
Such thinking and practices have helped evolve a convoluted opaque regressive system that largely provide opportunity for rent seeking and unproductive employment opportunities for middlemen, consultants, fixers and name droppers to navigate the 4Cs
The ecosystem is characterised by a conundrum of restrictions, rules and regulations that aid more in creating a web of confusion leaving enough scope for rent seeking for the otherwise unemployable middlemen, bureaucracy, consultants … who add little real value towards the end objective of aiding economic growth and progress; the shady conduct of players that include the cacophony of bureaucracy, middlemen, consultants, entrepreneurs, regulatory agencies … The book attempts to sensitise those entrepreneurs / businesses who want to play the game and exploit the huge market opportunity provided by a democratic system of freedom, poorly satisfied needs, enough spending power and high aspirations of the consuming population. The author believes this short book should serve the purpose of a primer to understand the animal that cannot be ignored and prepare oneself to tame it before getting too close for comfort.
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