Problem $3.$ Delivering Bad News.

Project. $"$We had a program going on in the U$.$S$.,$ a new product that we were trying to launch. The project was to interface with the India team and to get a major component actually designed and manufactured in India. Goals were getting a cost reduction for the overall product itself $[$and$]$ transferring expertise and knowledge to the India team$-$getting them up to speed on what the whole thing was about."

Team. "The lead was a U$.$S$.$ manager in $[$the$]$ U$.$S$.$ The interviewee was also in the U$.$S$.,$ of Indian background, and felt the India team treated him as an American. $[$Team members in India included$]$ four from India and one from France."

Challenge. $"$In the U$.$S$.,$ even though it's bad news, people are more open to saying $[$something like$],$ 'This part of the program has a lot of risks, and just today I found a few more issues and they are going to delay the program by so many weeks.$\text{'}[$In the United States$],$ I think people are a lot more open to saying that $[$in India$]."$