From: "World Bank Public Sphere" <publicsphere@worldbank.org>
Date: Aug 17, 2012 2:44 AM
Subject: What New on People, Spaces, Deliberation - August 16, 2012
Date: Aug 17, 2012 2:44 AM
Subject: What New on People, Spaces, Deliberation - August 16, 2012
Quote of the Week: Nandan Nilekani
Submitted by Sina Odugbemi on Mon, 08/13/2012
"Well, I think the way I see it simply is in the private sector the number of people you're to come into is much less. You convince your management team, your board, your investors, your analysts and you go and do something, go in new direction, buy a company, whatever.
In the public space, you are answerable to a lot more stakeholders, the government, parliament, bureaucracy, activists, journalists, the judicial system, the investigators. So I think what I learned is the amount of time you are to invest in evangelizing and consensus building is hugely more in the public space. And crafting a strategy which is sort of acceptable to everybody really takes a great deal of time. And that's where the big difference to me between the two worlds." Nandan Nilekani.
As quoted in an interview on Fareed Zakaria GPS, July 1, 2012.
It's all about crafting a strategy: in this case, about achieving the greatest common bad.