'..We were, and often are, working, in an open, transparent, collaborative environment, which resembles that of a start-up. We have the license to ideate every-day, and the will to take assertive ownership of our ideas.''Sheetal, and many like her are, slowly, but surely, contributing in our quest to becoming one of the world’s largest
grassroots ideapreneurship - where everyday ideas, set a new business paradigm.
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In-spite of an interim global recession, (where many of our contemporaries in other firms, were sinking in gloom), we, as a company (HCL Technologies) have grown more than four-fold since from
US $ 976 mn in 2006, to become a more than
$4 billion enterprise today, as on March 2012 by gaining market share against the competitors along the way.
How did this happen? No, it was not the CEO (as he would brashly admit), it was the collective passion of over 100 managers and 55,000 (growing in number, and today close to 85,000 of them) employees, who took the leap. We were part of a number of experiments. These were designed primarily, to get us employees to acknowledge the company’s need for positive change and then to empower and energize us to take the lead in making the change happen. We were, and often are, working, in an open, transparent, collaborative environment, which resembles that of a
start-up. We have the
license to ideate every-day, and the will to take assertive
ownership of our ideas.
This start-spirit is not new, but has now been acclimatized institutionally at HCL Technologies.'
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HCL Technologies: An Ideapreneurship: “Innovation at Grassroots”, 2013
Context 'I think we need an ideological revolution in business.' - Gary HamelLegitimize Daydreaming: Fly Beyond the Iron Cage'...benevolent affection...' '...the foundation of creativity.' '...creative human action or entrepreneurial activity...'(Haptonomy - Affectivity) - Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences - (Affective) Phenomenology of the Social World(Monetary) bureaucracy - '..our organizations are .. hostages to an ideology that is, in a real sense, inhuman.'(Bazaarmodel) - Orders From on High? That’s So Yesterday - “The Future of Management”'First, Let's Fire All the Managers' - Gary Hamel'..tell your boss you think the company has a love deficit.' - Hamel(Open Source) - '..full of creative exploration..' - '..the unschooling movement..'