Memoirs from a Professional Twin Brother Rolf Lynton

Twins” is what many of our colleagues in India called Udai and me at the Small Industry Extension Training Institute (SIET Institute, now known as National Institute for Small Industries Extension Training [ NISIET ]) in Hyderabad where we both were working together for the first time half a century ago. Very soon, Udai became the director of its Extension Education department and so my “counterpart”-a graceless, domineering foreign assistance term-as a consultant for Extension Education to the new staff college for the Government of India’s small industries consultants. We immediately saw eye to eye on just about everything. He, too, was convinced that the consultants needed to work in interdisciplinary teams. For that, they needed interpersonal skills that small-group and sensitivity training develop the best and that Udai had learned from Max Corey to facilitate and highly value. He easily saw that those skills also had to get rooted in actual practice together with operatives, foremen, and managers on the factory floor and not just talked about with...