Hclt Technologies Unit Assignment 1

HCLT commitment to transparency and their efforts in inverting the pyramid were making a great difference for the company. The blueprint meetings, planning and implementation process has allowed HCLT to successfully compete with the best global players in the IT industry.

Even though HCLT was still a small company, they saw their business growing. They began to hire hundreds of new employees and with worldwide revenue; they were quite diversified with operations in eighteen countries. One of Nayars primary focus was keeping the employees first and customers second, but with the massive growth and gain of new employees, Nayar wasn’t sure how to sustain that focus. “How would new people coming on board understand the importance of trust and transparency”, Nayar asked. This question is what brought about the Starfish and the Spider leadership organizational concept by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom.

Most companies, they argue, function like eight-legged spiders. “Cut off the leg of a spider, and you have a seven-legged creature on your hands; cut off its head and you have a dead spider”. “But cut off the arm of a starfish and it will grow a new one. Not only that, but the severed arm can grow an entirely new body. Starfish can achieve this feat because, unlike spiders, they are decentralized; every major organ is replicated across each arm”, (Nayar, V. (2010).  Recasting the Role of CEO:  Transferring the responsibility for change), The Starfish and the Spider: Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. In this reading, Nayar realized that HCLT was operating more like the spider rather than the starfish and seeing that they were operating more like a highly centralized organization. With this information a revelation was revealed to Nayar, and this will begin the start of the structural and leadership changes for HCLT.

Nayar set in motion certain trends to start the processes for the new and improved way of...