“The number of role models that our youngsters can look up to is decreasing. How many people in our public life can you be proud of for honesty, courage, commitment and hardwork? And that number is dwindling,” said the co-founder of Infosys Ltd.

“Our youngsters don’t have role models to look up to and therefore, and sadly because of corruption, some of the people who are doing exactly the opposite — dishonest, deceit, ‘chalta hai’ and all of that... they are becoming more and more powerful... they are becoming wealthier,” Murthy said at a function here on Saturday night to release a book, Upworldly Mobile, by Ranjini Manian, Founder and CEO of Global Adjustments, a cross-cultural training and services firm.

Ranjini said with 3,138 foreign companies currently registered and operating in India and the country producing 1 lakh MBA graduates every year, scope for cultural misunderstandings due to a lack of a common norm of global behaviour was infinite.

The book is designed to equip Indian managers and their expatriate colleagues with cultural intelligence tools to succeed in business, it was stated.

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