Not offshore. Home field.
Why Long Game is built the way it is, and why India sits at the center of it instead of at the end of a supply chain.
7,167 miles, one playbook. When Portland signs off for the night, Noida is starting the day.
Let's talk about outsourcing.
For a long time, a lot of American business with India ran on one idea: send the work where it costs less. The work moved. The respect often didn't. Decisions stayed in one place, the effort happened somewhere else, and the people doing the effort were treated as a line item.
Long Game isn't built on a cost gap. It's built on people.
Coach Leighty spent years in large global organizations working shoulder to shoulder with teams in Noida and across India. Many of those people were peers in the truest sense, and some became close friends. They moved fast, thought clearly, and got things done inside some of the biggest and most complex systems in business, across time zones, cultures and reporting lines. That's the opposite of a line item. That's the kind of person you build a company around.
Same map, different idea.
The old offshore model
- India is where the work gets cheaper
- Decisions made in one place, executed in another
- Success measured by cost saved
- People are capacity, swapped as needed
The Long Game model
- India is a home field, with its own Basecamps
- One shared playbook, with local leads using local judgment
- Success measured by the long games of the people we coach
- People are teammates, chosen for the long haul
Top-down on standards. Bottom-up on people.
Long Game is founder-led from Portland, on purpose. Early on, one person sets the standard, writes the playbook and is accountable for every session that carries the Long Game name. That's how you keep the quality the same in Bend and in Bangalore.
What the top does not do is pretend to understand every market from 7,000 miles away. A career in Noida isn't a career in Seattle with a different time zone. The pressures, the paths and the conversations at home are different. So each Basecamp is led by people who know that ground, and they get real room to lead.
Right now the founder is building the foundation himself. The crews come next, one Basecamp at a time, when the right people are ready. Nobody gets hired to fill a map.
How Long Game builds abroad.
One playbook, set at the top
Every Basecamp runs the same programs, the same way. A client in India gets exactly what a client in Portland gets.
Peers, not providers
Basecamp leads are people Coach Leighty has worked beside and trusts. They coach, and they get coached too: Long Game coaches trade sessions with a coach in another region.
Local leads, local judgment
The people closest to the market decide how Long Game shows up there: which industries, which events, which conversations matter most.
One home field. Many Basecamps.
Standards flow down from HQ. Judgment lives with the local leads. The dotted line is the part most companies skip.
Three camps, one crew forming.
Noida
The IT corridor just outside Delhi, and the ground Coach Leighty knows best in India. Long Game already has people here.
New Delhi
The capital and one of the fastest-growing career markets in the world. Noida and Delhi open as one crew.
Bangalore
India's tech capital. If you work in software and you're here, this will be your Basecamp.
Next door, Kathmandu is Long Game's flagship Basecamp for South Asia, with Pokhara alongside it. See every Basecamp →
You don't have to wait for the crew.
Everybody has a long game. Some of the best ones start in India.
If you've done your best work inside big, complicated organizations and you want to help other people find their footing, we'd like to hear from you. The India crew is being built carefully, by invitation and introduction.
Or email mike@longgamecareercoaching.com
Distances are straight-line miles from Portland. The clock gap shifts by an hour when the US changes clocks; India does not observe daylight saving time.