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Transcript: Tom Cook

Leadership in iron working is similar to leadership in all of indian society

[Cook:]
When you walk like you’re scared, everybody feels that way. But when you exude confidence and smoothness, then everybody feels like that. It’s the same thing in the air as it is on the ground and so when people see others of integrity, they feel that themselves. They want to be like that. That’s how society works and Indian culture in particular has always functioned. You follow the leaders. The ones that know how, that show they know how. Then you get efficiency. Then they want to keep you. The company wants to send you job to job, because you can do the work. They bid a job on 50 picks a day. How many picks of iron, can you place in eight-hour shift? So they bid it at 50 and you deliver 72, 80 picks a day, they’re going to notice the money you’re making them, and that’s the basis of the reputation Mohawks have ironworking.