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Housebound, and working hard
Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well
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An inflection point is upon us
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
Special Edition: Taking stock of Jack Welch’s true legacy
Numbers aren’t everything. People matter. Cultures matter
Learning is tough. This is how smart leaders make the time for it
The room for learning, growth and improvement exists when you are challenged by smart peers and colleagues
The hard questions of our times
The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?
Ground Realities
Despatches from Indore: The quest for a secure job in the formal sector
This month, we participate in the lives of a few Indore residents, and get a glimpse of unspoken realities and desires, as jobs in the formal sector define their self-worth
Why we should re-examine the clichés in our heads
They stop us from digging deeper. We fail to see the downsides. We miss interesting opportunities. The antidote is to consciously seek the opposite
Making space for loonshots
How to make both loonshots and franchises successful inside an organisation
The cooker affair: A cautionary tale of using science for political ends
In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?
Why Indian technology projects haven’t made global impact
Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’
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