{"id":52,"date":"2009-08-07T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T13:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymistake.org\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-08-03T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:18:39","slug":"creeping-and-crawling-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/creeping-and-crawling-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Taking Quick Decisions is a Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/mistake\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_Nilekani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-78\" title=\"Nandan_Nilekani\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/mistake\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_Nilekani-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_Nilekani-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_Nilekani-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Biggest mistake? Everyone \u00a0of my mistakes has come from not taking a decision quickly and at the right time. Whenever I have moved decisively and done something it has worked. Whenever I have postponed or procastinated, I have gotten into a deeper trouble. \u00a0I think being quick and decisive at the same time doing those desicisons that sound judgemental is very key on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Question:<\/strong> Any specific examples and lessons learnt?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember in 2001 when we had the crisis of the IT boom going out, I think we should have moved much faster, I mean, \u00a0I should have moved faster on reacting to it. \u00a0In the first 10 years of Infosys we could&#8217;ve been more ambitious. It took us almost 12 years before we took off. \u00a0I think we should have done that much faster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Nandan Nilekani: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nandan Nilekani is the CoFounder and ex-CEO of Infosys Technologies. Nandan currently serves as the Chairman of the new\u00a0<a title=\"Unique Identification Authority of India\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_India\">Unique Identification Authority of India<\/a> (UIDAI). \u00a0 There&#8217;s more about Nandan in this <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nandan_Nilekani\">Wikipedia article<\/a> about him.<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/mistake\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_MyMistake.mp3\">http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/mistake\/files\/2009\/08\/Nandan_MyMistake.mp3<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest mistake? Everyone \u00a0of my mistakes has come from not taking a decision quickly and at the right time. Whenever I have moved decisively and done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ceo","category-kiruba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/failure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}