In his HCL Comnet days, Vineet Nayyar used to run a boot camp for his new recruits in a far-off place. For a week, the cadets went through hell, doing team tasks in high pressure situations, mostly in a sleepless zombie-like state.
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Within a month of being hired by HCL Technologies, Vineet Nayar, who later rose to become the company's CEO, was asked to leave. For Nayar, there were two major takeaways from it — a company is not always right, and neither is the individual. As for his management thought on the event — there is a need to search for a thought-in-between.
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Poised to provoke: Vineet Nayar caused a row by declaring that American technology graduates were unemployable
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This interview with Vineet Nayar, chief executive HCL Technologies, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
Q. Talk about some of the important leadership lessons you’ve learned.
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