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FF Daily #388: A culture of dedication
June 3, 2021: Pete Davis on committing our time; The costs of Covid; Why people choke under pressure; Live with intention
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
My five summer books of 2021
Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna's work on gene editing; the courage to stand up for what's right; which habits will stay, which will change; adaptive leadership; and giving your career a different direction
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner, Advent International
·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #387: The limits of ingenuity
June 2, 2021: Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change; Anand Deshpande’s dilemmas; Bootstrapping versus funding; Elegy for the Arctic
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
FF Daily #386: The power of curiosity
June 1, 2021: Ian Leslie on asking questions; A beauty upstart; Oslo and the art of negotiation; It’s Alright Ma
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·Leadership & Organisation
Anand Deshpande’s founder’s dilemma at Persistent
After scaling up, do you get a professional to lead as CEO or continue at the helm? Where do you draw the lines between ownership and management? Is it better to exit totally or wait until the kids have grown up? If they want to, how do you induct them? When a crisis happens, do you step in or let professionals handle it? These are questions that Anand Deshpande, founder and chairman of Persistent Systems, has wrestled with and opens up on in this candid conversation
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #385: Age of pandemics
May 31, 2021: Chinmay Tumbe on the difficulties of forecasting in a pandemic; Best shareholder letters; On self-deception; Starry Night
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
An Indian beauty upstart in the West
A new breed of South Asian women entrepreneurs is leading Americans to embrace the Indian grandmother’s age-old beauty secrets in new easy-to-use ways. As a marketing strategy, it is Indian tradition marketed in digitally native formats
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization, Microsoft Azure, Seattle
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Tune out social media angst and re-energise to focus on what is important
FF Recommends: Focus and get things done
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #383: GoI versus WhatsApp
May 28, 2021: The search for meaning; Team versus Family; Laughter (painting)
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
FF Daily #382: The battle between fuel and friction
May 27, 2021: Why do new ideas meet with resistance; The politics of Gandhi; Zoom fatigue; Here comes the sun
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
FF Daily #381: Learning through practice
May 26, 2021: Atul Gawande on how patients benefit from teaching resident doctors; Brad Stone on the invention of the Amazon empire; Satya Nadella on the hybrid work paradox; Justice explained
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #380: Reading between the lines
May 25, 2021: Daniel Goleman on reading emotional signals; The world is not a machine; Mixing vaccines; Invictus
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·Economy, Policy & Society
FF Daily #379: Underdeveloped urban India
May 24, 2021: Cal Newport on focus and deep work; Why Indian cities remain underdeveloped; Bitcoin spells trouble; The Serenity Prayer
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Power to the people
The vaccine crisis is yet another proof that principles of capitalism are at variance with the needs of humanity. Instead of top-down policies, focus on profits and economies of scale, local on-the-ground solutions and the economies of scope that they bring, can be the founding fuel for transformative change
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Economy, Policy & Society
The virus has upgraded itself. Have you?
FF Recommends: The right mask and the right way to wear it
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant