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In this extract from his book, ‘Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India', Vinay Sitapati talks about the attributes that enabled Rao to manage the politics of reforms. His ability to assess the situation and play mouse, lion or fox—as need be—was Rao’s paramount political skill
Vinay Sitapati
Political scientist, journalist, lawyer
When the political mastermind of Indian economic reforms died, the apocryphal hand of the party he was part of, deserted him. Only a few were there. Those who knew what he really accomplished, like Dr. Manmohan Singh
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Pokémon Go, the shift from print to digital media, bitcoins and the maturing of digital currency, and more
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Entrepreneurs oftentimes stand at the crossroads. What road do you choose then? The one that leads to valuations? Or that to a life well lived?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Rich insights from tables and charts won’t be enough. People connect to stories
Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
People-related issues are complex and unpredictable. Elicit stories about them to understand patterns and design the right interventions
Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
Like in sport, in business too a coach can hold the space and engage a star player to sort out his game when going through a rough patch
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
India Inc needs to do more to make the workplace fair, equitable and safe for women
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Having registered one billion Indians, the team behind Aadhaar is now creating a digital infrastructure—the India Stack—that promises to disrupt financial services, make service delivery dramatically cheaper and efficient and boost the startup ecosystem
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Design thinking expert Jeanne Liedtka believes that everyone has the potential to be an innovator. They just need to know how.
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
The obvious list of things to try includes prototyping, manual collation and more convenient prioritization
Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
In this extract from chapter 6 of his book, ‘Leveraging Human Capital’, K Ramkumar talks about how challenge, testing, competitiveness and hard confrontation are important attributes of nurturing champions
K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre
No longer seen as window dressing, today design is being seen as a key source of competitive advantage in business—as well as other parts of life
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
Jobless growth is a multi-cause, systemic problem. Tackling each cause individually will backfire. A more effective solution is to develop a synergistic policy-matrix
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
An ability to change decisions is not about inconsistency, it is about flexibility. Insights from Al Pittampalli’s book ‘Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Mind to Change the World’
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