London, 22nd December, 2011 – HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced its Vice Chairman & CEO, Vineet Nayar has been selected in the elite ‘Thinkers 50 List’, the definitive listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers.
”The new ranking also signals a passing of the baton to a new generation of gurus”, said Thinkers50 in a press release, citing Vineet Nayar as one of the examples of the ”Changing of the Guru Guard”. Vineet Nayar is the highest placed practitioner in the star line-up.
HCL joins global stalwarts like Jim Collins, Michael porter, Tom Peters, Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Don Tapscott, Linda Hill, Thomas Friedman, Steven Covey, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne amongst others in this prestigious group described as the ”most influential living management thinkers”.
Commenting on this citation, Vineet Nayar, Vice Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies said, ”It’s an honor to be placed amongst the global stalwarts in the ‘Thinkers50’ List. This acknowledgement is a testimonial to HCL’s thought leadership in creating and executing perhaps one of the most disruptive management mantras of the recent times -the ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ philosophy. With Employees First we have been able to engage our employees to deliver more value and transformation to clients which has resulted in the doubling of revenues in the last three recessionary years
During the two years of recession, HCL grew in excess of 21% YoY, which was an industry leading performance. This success in creating a powerful ideas and executing it with great impact is what makes HCL a true global thought leader”.
”I thank the jury and all the people who have reposed their faith in HCL and its disruptive idea”, he added.
"At the Thinkers50 we are always looking out for practitioners who have clear, well articulated and innovative approaches to the way they run their organisations. Vineet Nayar delivers on all three fronts. He has a compellingly communicated management philosophy and one which is a powerful differentiator for HCL. We look forward to following HCL and Vineet as their story evolves," say Thinkers50 founders Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.
Developed and owned by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, the definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. The previous winners were Michael Porter (2005) and Peter Drucker (2001 and 2003). The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website (www.thinkers50.com), followed by input from a panel of advisers led by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove. The Thinkers50 has ten established criteria by which thinkers are evaluated — originality of ideas; practicality of ideas; presentation style; written communication; loyalty of followers; business sense; international outlook; rigor of research; impact of ideas and the elusive guru factor.

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