TIME magazine on HCL Infosystems (India) Ltd.
JPR, Vannakam Saaaar,
How am I doing in the market,well I am back to a 100% in Dell from the previous +85% or so,you?
Now here is an article I found in TIME magazine on HCL Infosys, may be I pick up a few shares now that I got this broker all set up online.
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Excerpts from TIME.
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The office is, by any standard, immense. Somewhere behind the buffet-size mahogany desk, the innocent visitor suspects, there must be a gurgling hot tub. There's not. Just Shiv Nadar, the ebullient, charming chairman of India's HCL Corp., smiling from the far side (very far side) of an expansive conference table as he spins the elegant tale of his company's bloom. From a tiny seed of programmable calculators in 1976, HCL has sprouted into a $550 million software and services firm with partners like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. And dancing before Nadar's luminous eyes at century's end is the prospect of $3 billion in annual revenue.
But as the chrome sparkles under the off-white lights of his suburban Delhi office, as a liveried assistant sails past with fresh coffee, it's hard not to notice something odd about Nadar's palatial executive suite: each of a dozen windows is darkened by gray venetian blinds that hermetically seal him off from the great Indian sprawl outside.
For Nadar, 51, the immediate world beyond HCL has been, more often than not, something to ignore. What with brutal government regulations, competitors who won contracts with well-timed political "donations" and an Indian economy that seemed locked in a state of perpetual emergency, it has been all Nadar could do to keep the company focused. So HCL has always been an intellectual "clean room" for employees, a place where they could comfortably imagine limitless possibilities without having to ogle the jarring reality outside their windows--poverty, sectarianism, analog thinking. Office blinds, standard issue at HCL, have carefully protected Nadar's revolutionary incubator..........
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