Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Fortune Article praises HCL's Nayar. (BMD 85)

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The world's most modern management - in India
HCL Technologies is empowering its employees and pointing the way to the future of business.

By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
April 14, 2006: 12:41 PM EDT

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - I have seen the future of management, and it is Indian. Vineet Nayar, president of India's 30,000-employee HCL Technologies (Research), is creating an IT outsourcing firm where, he says, employees come first and customers second.

"Everybody was aghast the first time I said that," admits Nayar.

Here are some things I can say about him with confidence: He is good at motivating employees, very committed to building a great team, but a little shaky on getting things done on time. These are not my observations. They are what his employees told him in an extraordinary process of upward evaluation he implemented last year at HCL.

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Vineet Nayar is an XLer of the 85 batch (BMD). This is high praise indeed, since Indian magazines are often citing Western examples on management excellence. This article is a welcome change & its simply great that its about an XLer.

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