Why did China people in Silicon Valley lose to Indians?

Progress in the workplace is a process of gradually gaining leadership. If the misunderstanding of leadership leads us to give up the pursuit of leadership, or to pursue leadership wholeheartedly, as if we sent troops to fight without learning from others, then of course we will lose at the starting line. Where are our misunderstandings about leaders? I can see the answer every day.

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In Silicon Valley and the whole American workplace, China people are obviously inferior to Indians. Google President Bicai and Microsoft President Nadella are both new immigrants from India. They went to the United States for graduate studies in their twenties. In most Silicon Valley companies, few people from China hold senior positions, while Indian vice presidents and directors can be found everywhere. Statistics show that the number of venture capital high-tech companies in India is far greater than the population of China, which is not equal to the median income of China and India.

Many people in China are dissatisfied with this and often analyze it when they are together. Some of these analyses reach the historical level, some go deep into the cultural roots, some think that Indians have good English and boast more convincingly, and some think that Indians are not as honest as we in China. Because of their cunning

There may be some truth in this conversation, but I just want to talk about one of the reasons today: China people have a profound misunderstanding about leadership, which hinders our progress in the workplace.

Progress in the workplace is a process of gradually demonstrating and acquiring leadership skills. If the misunderstanding of leadership makes us give up the pursuit of leadership, or we feel comfortable in the pursuit of leadership. For example, when we sent troops to fight, no one studied or could not walk. Of course, we lost at the starting line.

I'm not the first person to point out that China engineers in Silicon Valley lack leadership skills. In fact, many people have seen it. But why do engineers in China lack leadership ability, but they can't hear convincing arguments? Of course, the reason behind it must be China culture. It is estimated that Confucius is also to blame. But I don't know how China culture eroded our leadership, and where Confucius was guilty.

An important meeting was held in time when I returned to China to visit my relatives a year ago. Every day, the meeting place is reported on TV. But I didn't see these scenes in vain. After a few more eyes, I suddenly found an important discovery. There is a simple and direct reason for the general lack of leadership in our generation: we have watched the meeting scenes reported by leaders every day, every month and every year since we were young. Finally, we were misunderstood that the leader should report carefully in the conference hall.

After years of hard work, of course, I know this is wrong. First of all, the work of leaders is not all meetings. Second, even if leaders hold more meetings, meetings are not just meetings. There is a lot of preparation behind the meeting. Kung fu is not poetry. If some of them will tie a ribbon on a beautiful cake box to ensure that the taste and appearance of the cake are good, and that the cake can be eaten on time and completely put into the box, then this is the prerequisite for making a cake knot.

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Poor language skills and unfamiliarity with mainstream culture will obviously affect our development in the workplace. But why these problems can't be solved is worth thinking about. When I first came to America, it was understandable that English was inferior to human beings. After all, people have lived in an English environment for many years. However, after living in the United States for more than ten years, can you still use this excuse?

There are many reasons why China people in Silicon Valley and the whole American workplace are not as successful as Indians. But almost everyone thinks that Indians are much more proficient in English than we are.

Poor language skills and subsequent unfamiliarity with mainstream culture will definitely affect the development of the workplace. The reason is obvious, needless to say. But why this problem has not been solved is worth thinking about. When I first came to America, my English was not as good as that of Indians, which is understandable. After all, people have lived in an English environment for many years. But after living in America for ten years, twenty years and thirty years, we still can't use this excuse to stop us.

We often say that Chinese in Silicon Valley are not as successful as Indians. One reason is the lack of leadership. As for the lack of leadership, one of the reasons often mentioned is that China's international student selection mechanism determines that these people are the masters of learning. As we are all students, learning English should be a piece of cake for us; But the reality is that although there are many successful examples, with the development of the United States, the language level of engineers in Silicon Valley has not broken through.