October 2009 Essay

meghnasridhar
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:33:50 +0000

I got the one about “knowing everything about something before taking action”.

I said yes, it’s very important to know all the aspects of a situation before you decide to take action or make a decision. I used two examples: one from history (India’s partition into India and Pakistan in 1947 that led to one of the most violent communal riots in history-- result of a hasty decision to take action without considering the implications of the partition) and one from the business world (Xerox agreed to let Steve Jobs see their prototype of their personal computer model without knowing he planned to create his own line of PCs, which led to Apple capturing the market while Xerox didn’t even have a chance). Do you think the examples worked? I liked them, but I hope I didn’t ramble/sound repetitive. My conclusion sucked though.