Team strategy

domain-b's exclusive weekly preview of CNBC-TV18's Masterstrokes discussion on team strategy between BVR Subbu, president , Hyundai Motors India Ltd. and cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar, anchored by Harsha Bhogle.

Harsha BhogleSports personality Harsha Bhogle anchors a discussion on team strategy between BVR Subbu, president of Hyundai Motors India Ltd. and cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar in this weeks's episode of Masterstrokes to be aired on CNBC-TV18 on Tuesday, September 7 and Sunday, September 12, 2004. A domain-b exclusive.

Harsha Bhogle: Most people think, that Indians are very good thinkers but pretty average doers. You have a very interesting path, I mean you worked in a hard core Indian company, so Indian that they named their car Indica and then moved on to head an Indo-Korean company. Did you see any difference in the two approaches?

BVR SubbuSubbu: Let me say one thing about both the companies. Both the companies are very driven companies and as a result of that, there are great similarities in the way they approach things. Tata, Telco, Tata Motors as it is called now is a very entrepreneurial company and allowed a lot of leeway and freedom to actually get things done. Having said that, the question you asked me about Indians being thinkers and not doers, sometimes I tend to agree with that very often.

Now that I am working very closely with the Koreans, I have seen that very closely. I think what happens typically is like you have computers doing parallel processing and sequential processing, I think Indians are very good at parallel processing, lateral thinkers, very well at strategy. You give them a month's data to structure, they'll collate that completely, sort it, assimilate it — but when it comes to actually getting it off the ground, sometimes things tend to skip.