·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
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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·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
Investor | Entrepreneur
·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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·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
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Idealistic, innovative entrepreneurship has the potential to change Indian higher education
How do you achieve holistic higher education? Sant Singaji Institute of Science and Management in rural Madhya Pradesh shows the way
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·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
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·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
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
·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
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·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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Knowledge Partner
·Leadership & Organisation
Does your team have runners or passive riders?
In his book ‘Move Your Bus’, Ron Clark talks about the different kinds of people companies typically have—high performers, the dependables, average workers and deadweights—and what leaders can do to get the best out of their teams
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Tech-savvy entrepreneurs, can you put India on the global innovation map?
Technological innovation is the key to supernormal profits. And India's failure to build high-level innovation capabilities is a failure of entrepreneurship and leadership
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
I am so bored at work; should I become an entrepreneur instead?
Do you really want to start out on your own or is it your midlife crisis talking?
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Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
·Leadership & Organisation
So why is politics a bad word in organizations?
The ability to influence is a critical skill for achieving objectives in an increasingly complex and results-driven environment
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Sanjay Handu
Corporate Consultant
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The imperatives of a family office
Just as a strategic plan provides a compass for an operating business, it is necessary to have one for personal assets
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Harsh Mariwala
Chairman | Marico
·Technology & the Future
This week in disruptive tech—December 16, 2015
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, gene-editing, and alternative energy.
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel