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My first conversation was with Vineet Nayar, CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies (HCLT).

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Think about some of the most enormously successful CEOs in the world: Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman, Steve Jobs, Tony Hsieh, Vineet Nayar.

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Vineet Nayar is chief executive officer of HCL Technologies, the India-based global information technology services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).

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They join other thought leaders, including Alan W. Brown, John Seely Brown, Rod Collins, Bill George, Ranjay Gulati, John Hagel, Gary Hamel, Umair Haque, Vlatka Hlupic, Roger Martin, Lisa Earle McLeod, Vineet Nayar, Franz Roeoesli, Fred Reichheld and Jeff Sutherland.

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