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People respond to negative stimuli in their own way. What does it take to ignore the negativity and find a workaround for the stress?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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?
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
There is content, content and more content. But there is only so much you need
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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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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
K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre
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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The lockdown is taking its toll. What will it take workers in the informal sectors and small businesses to survive?
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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.
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
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
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
While essential services are in place, people in government managing cities are in limbo. A vast majority of state employees are in ineffective mode because they are working from home and cannot access their systems remotely. It’s time to plan digital transformation in the government.
Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
How can you deliver business continuity if you are churned up and anxious inside? More importantly, how can you use this crisis as a springboard to shape the future, instead of merely coping with it? A 7-day practical plan to cultivate resilience in a crisis.
Vijay Bhat
Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services
Monitoring people at work from home is something employers are thinking about. But what about the economic costs, technical issues, legal implications and ethical aspects?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Manish Sabharwal has been watching what’s going on in the economy, in the society, and in the government from multiple vantage points. He talks about the possible scenarios and how business—and indeed the country—will need to sequence and calibrate their response
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Across Maharashtra, fresh farm produce was rotting after supply chains were disrupted by the national lockdown. The local administration in one of the districts offered a window of opportunity to small farmers’ collectives to build a farm-to-home model—and dramatically turn the tide
Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
Local systems solutions, investments in healthcare and public institutions, cross-pollination of ideas—a panel moderated by Arun Maira discusses how to extract the economy out of the morass it is in
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