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Start-ups aren't from Mars
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Start-ups aren't from Mars

Most large companies struggle to remain entrepreneurial while most small enterprises have a hard time trying to scale. It's time they learn from each other

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

How to make meetings purposeful
·Leadership & Organisation

How to make meetings purposeful

Insights from Al Pittampalli’s book ‘Read This Before Our Next Meeting’ on how to get more done

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There’s a time to buy, there’s a time to sell
·Business & Strategy

There’s a time to buy, there’s a time to sell

Mergers and acquisitions are incredibly tough to manage. How do you navigate the ground and yet take the right calls? An entrepreneur shares lessons from the road

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Harsh Mariwala

Harsh Mariwala

Chairman | Marico

Empathy and the power of being moved
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Empathy and the power of being moved

The essence of “being moved” is being persuaded to act upon your goodness. This holds a lesson for entrepreneurs

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Baba Prasad

Baba Prasad

President and CEO | Vivékin Group

Building a story repertoire
·Leadership & Organisation

Building a story repertoire

Here’s how you can create your own, easy to recall catalogue of stories for every business context

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Indranil Chakraborty

Indranil Chakraborty

Founder | Storyworks

Transformers: The DNA of an innovative company
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Transformers: The DNA of an innovative company

How do you design and run an innovative company? In his book Deepak Loomba details his experiences in setting up De Core Science and Technologies as a scalable and flexible firm

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Why Abdul Kalam continues to matter
·Leadership & Organisation

Why Abdul Kalam continues to matter

It was not without reason that he was called the ‘people's president'. He had a moral compass that pointed True North

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The fault in our startups
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

The fault in our startups

Internet startups are cloning business models from the West, without much thought on how to Make in India

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

A design thinking approach to film making
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

A design thinking approach to film making

'For Here or to Go?', a film about Indian immigrants in America, has received much acclaim. Writer-producer Rishi Bhilawadikar and director Rucha Humnabadkar talk about how an independent film maker is very much like a first time entrepreneur

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How do I deal with an owner who can’t let go?
·Leadership & Organisation

How do I deal with an owner who can’t let go?

As the group CEO, I’ve grown the firm, but now the owner has started to needlessly get in the way. How do I handle the situation?

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Subroto Bagchi

Subroto Bagchi

Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist

The Spotlight on Incest
·Leadership & Organisation

The Spotlight on Incest

Why it often takes an outsider to bring change and why everybody in leadership positions ought to put the movie ‘Spotlight’ on their list of mandatory viewing

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

12 business stories from 2015 and how they will play out in 2016
·Business & Strategy

12 business stories from 2015 and how they will play out in 2016

Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava analyses the secret behind the success of Baba Ramdev's Patanjali, the rise of Kabaddi, Uber's strategy, Maggi Noodles' comeback, Google and Facebook's drive to control last-mile connectivity, and more

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Revving up innovation
·Leadership & Organisation

Revving up innovation

Nurturing an experimentative culture requires a new set of leadership tools that allow variance and controlled risk-taking to flourish

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

How embedded education can solve many problems
·Economy, Policy & Society

How embedded education can solve many problems

Embedded education—or using peoples' encounters with non-educational delivery systems for education—can sometimes prove to be more effective than traditional delivery mechanisms.

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CKGSB Knowledge

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