I know of an instance in India where one of my friend's friend had to leave his executive government job (while in the initial two years of appointment after af

I know of an instance in India where one of my friend's friend had to leave his executive government job (while in the initial two years of appointment after after graduation and clearing a tough entrance exam) because he wanted to stand by his principles whereas there was constant pressure to budge in many instances. He chose to stand by his value system and doing some other job less powerful but more lucrative in the corporate sector. This is a repeating theme of officers who standby the truth not able to withstand the system. Another thing I wish that can change is the "jugaad" attitude. This was popularized by some of the management thinkers [1]. In its most benevolent it can mean "frugal innovation" or "make things work with the available resources". In its every day use though, it means "getting things done - regardless of the means - that is through connections or influencing through money etc.,". The idea is to get things done quickly somehow. Understandably, this attitude leads to lot of "quality-less" work being passed on for what it should not be otherwise. Things are not looked at from a permanent solution perspective. I wish people learn the right attitude from childhood (not cutting into lines, managers treating employees as people and not take them for granted etc.,) and do things right and well rather than do some "jugaad" and quickly be done with it as a temp fix only to stare at the problem again in a shorter time than it is supposed to last. Of course, there are towering well known counter examples like Gandhi and not-so-well-known to western audience like Kamaraj [2] and Kakkan[3]. These were self-less political leaders who were honest to the core and died almost penniless. Somehow slowly the quality has been diluting over 50+ years and reached a stage of stasis as it is now. Edit: added qualifier on references 2 and 3. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Kamaraj http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Kamaraj [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Kakkan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Kakkan