India
How to work and negotiate with Indians? Which business opportunities in India?
Spicy: lots of flavours, tasty…
QUestion 1: shake head from side to side
Basically to say go ahead, I am listening to you
Question 2: to say hello (OFFICIALLY ...)
If you want to be formal or just polite, bow deeply from the waist and say Namaste. democracy It is the biggest one but sort of anarchy. 1.2 billion People and 700 millions voting. gandi * Peaceful revolution * Was a lawyer in Britain and went to Sth Africa. He started to be interested into protecting the Indians. * He was a simple guy: food, clothes…
geography Capital: New Delhi
Pink city: Jaipur
what infrastructural main problems have multinational companies found in INDIA? * Roads in bad condition * Cows everywhere, pigs on the main road * Principle: if the front does it, the back of the car will. They don’t give a shit about the firelights.. * To blow the horn is a way to say I am here. * Bad railway tracks…cannot go fast otherwise it goes out of the track. * Power shortage * Don’t drink water there.
Sectors which employs * Agriculture :60% * Industry 17% * Services 23% quality needed to do business there * To be assertive (s’affirmer, to be sure but not ignoring people’s character ...not against the others) * To be patient (time factor different there) “ic et hunc” : ici et maintenant * To respect the Indian etiquette:
Why India is the mother of us all. * Mother of our rage * LANGUAGE: SANSKRIT * Le savoir nous est parvenu pas les cultures qu’on dit éloignées : philosophy, mathematics * Religion: « ideals we can get into Christianity…” Buddhism is almost dead in India * Village : direct democracy history * In 1526: Mughal Empire. The Mughal dynasty ruled most of the Indian subcontinent by 1600 * Indian Rebellion of 1857 vast social change in the subcontinent as the Hindu ( religious