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June 4: Why tech alone is not enough; improve access points—like Zoom; how Anurag Kashyap made Black Friday; how to call out offenders
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June 1: Learn to negotiate... with kids, get the sequencing right for digital education, prepare yourself for post-lockdown
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Aarogya Setu: Why tech is not the most important problem—or the solution
Technology is often just one piece in a jigsaw puzzle. To solve a problem at a systemic level, other pieces—often harder to crack, boring to implement, thankless at the end—have to fall in place
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Six learnings on innovation from anti-Covid efforts
Organisations across the spectrum have been able to get their act together, focus, and solve tough problems quickly. This makes you wonder—why are they unable to muster even a fraction of this ability in normal times?
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Technology & the Future
During lockdown, at midnight. A movie party connects dispersed friends
The Sholay generation knew how to party over movies with friends. Netflix Party wants to recreate the experience for millennials. Apparently, the crazier the movie, the better it is
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Business & Strategy
The apparel industry’s new pattern for a post-Covid comeback
In the lockdown, business is literally closed. And much ground is already lost to Bangladesh and Vietnam. It will take a mindset shift at many levels for the sector to reclaim lost ground
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
When uncertainty and anxiety come calling
People respond to negative stimuli in their own way. What does it take to ignore the negativity and find a workaround for the stress?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The used and discarded workers of India
Many continue to congratulate state governments for being bold in withdrawing constitutional protections of Indian workers, apparently to attract foreign investors. They’re missing the facts on the ground. What will convince them to open their hearts to the plight of millions of citizens?
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Economy, Policy & Society
The ultimate guide to good journalism
There is content, content and more content. But there is only so much you need
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Stability in the storm: Reflections in challenging times
Finding the right path when all is murky is a special challenge today. Deep listening and deep conversations can throw some light. This facilitated conversation does just that
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Suspending labour laws means paving a road to nowhere
Far from bringing in new business, the wholescale suspension of labour laws by some states poses a real danger of unleashing mistrust among factory workers. For the move is fair neither to workers nor to employers
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre
·Business & Strategy
Platforms in a Post-COVID World: Masterclass with Sangeet Paul Choudary
The pandemic is leading to fundamental shifts in behaviours. What does that mean for platform businesses? Are there opportunities for incumbents to reimagine business models? And how can country-level platforms help countries gain an advantage in the global arena?
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Labour migration, jobs and society in the Age of the Pandemic
The lockdown is taking its toll. What will it take workers in the informal sectors and small businesses to survive?
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Lockdown notes on working, living and loving from the Far East
As the national lockdown gradually ends across China and the Far East, many professionals are starting to pick up the pieces of their lives and getting back to work. But it isn’t quite the same again.
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Economy, Policy & Society
Stories of compassion from a cauldron in Surat’s textile hub
The lives of small business owners and migrant labour have been turned completely upside down. But the crisis may have also brought the community closer
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited