Leadership development & Indian Education System

I have recently come across a very interesting research study on Indian business leaders vs. global business leaders with specific focus towards their tendency to search for information. The study mentions that whereas global leaders score at 15.34 on the information search scale, Indian leaders score at 2.72. I think this happens due to our education system which does not encourage study from multiple text books for a subject or topic. We usually have only one text book from which we are expected to memorise the answers and reproduce the same during the exams . Indian business leaders also scored low of 6.41 compared to 20.63 on ‘Concept formation’. I believe this too can be attributed to the way we are taught. In schools we are expected to repeat what is given in one single text book and the important process of applying thought to what we read is bypassed. When we come into organizations we find that these ingrained habits are setting us up for failure. How do we unlearn these habits? Indian leaders also scored low on ‘influencing’, this too can be attributed to our education system which encourages individual contribution over team work. Hence the need for learning the very important skill of ‘influencing’ is never felt by most of us. Dare I say that the best leaders from India will be those who would have participated in team games at the school level.