Fresh perspectives and timely insights from the Founding Fuel network. Stay current with the latest articles, conversations, and ideas shaping leadership and business strategy.
CEOs and entrepreneurial founders are rolling up their sleeves to save their businesses and also save livelihoods so that the economy doesn't sink further. An introduction to ‘Survival Strategies’, an urgent theme Founding Fuel is exploring
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
Three great books on handling uncertainty
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Even as they grapple with the operational aspects of the crisis, many business leaders are bringing a beginner’s mind and experimenting. They are discovering slivers of opportunity and preparing for a post COVID-19 world
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The whole family is at home. I’m bombarded with calls all day. There’s housework too. I can’t find quiet corner to hunker down and focus
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
We’ve pitchforked into action without any process or an established way of working. As a leadership team, what can we do right now to handle this disruption and help settle things down inside our enterprise?
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well
Founding Fuel
The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
Founding Fuel
Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Numbers aren’t everything. People matter. Cultures matter
Founding Fuel
The room for learning, growth and improvement exists when you are challenged by smart peers and colleagues
Founding Fuel
‘We are customer-driven’, ‘we are data-driven’. Those are typical refrains from companies. But are they really? It all boils down to culture
Founding Fuel
The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?
Founding Fuel
This month, we participate in the lives of a few Indore residents, and get a glimpse of unspoken realities and desires, as jobs in the formal sector define their self-worth
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
February 17, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology. In this issue: Swiggy’s partnerships, Tesla’s pricing and Silicon Valley’s fascination with Yuval Harari
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
