There is a sense of mission about Grameen workers that mocks the claims to motivated and inspired businesses elsewhere. Yet there is nothing frentic or fervid about the workers. The approach is mindful, disciplined, stately if anything. Bureaucracy and deference are equal hallmarks of this enterprise. But good things take time – and that approach, which can be mistaken for languor, is a curiosity to my time poor western eyes.
Grameen and Time
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This is a beautiful observation – as are many others you’ve made. I love that you are concerned that the taxi driver has to ask for directions. In India it is not unusual to hop in a tuk-tuk, having agreed that they know where you want to go, and stop at the next corner to pick up a friend of the driver, who may or may not know where you want to go. If they do then they will join you for the ride, if they don’t they will take you to another friend who will know, who will also join you for the ride. Sometimes we would end up with three or four extra passengers, all of us friends by the time we arrived at the destination. Now this may have been due to the fact that my co-passenger on these adventures was one Ms C Blanchett and the driver was simply charging his friends to have a ride around town in his tu-tuk, with this translucent goddess, but I also wonder if these journeys are another aspect of the quality of time you talk about. You hop in the taxi and you may not get there as quickly as you would like but you will always get there.