·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
How to be insanely more productive
People like me think ourselves meticulously organised. But sometimes the best laid plans go to waste. How does it happen?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
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·Business & Strategy
Design and business: Practicing design thinking in China
IDEO China’s Charles Hayes on how the globally renowned design and consulting company operates in a Chinese context
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·Business & Strategy
Why e-commerce consolidation is no panacea
The euphoria around Flipkart’s recent acquisition of Jabong may be a tad misplaced. After all, there are far bigger competitive issues at stake that could define the next phase of growth of Indian e-commerce
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Listening to them—and shaping our future together
For India to progress faster to fulfil the needs of its citizens, Indians must overcome internal differences. They must discover the highest common factors in their multiple perspectives and aspirations; and listen to each other deeply to understand who ‘we’ are, and to shape ‘our’ future together
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The science of improving your work life
Caroline Webb, author of ‘How to Have a Good Day’ and chief executive of Sevenshift, on what you can do to have a more fulfilling work life
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·Economy, Policy & Society
The business elite’s moment of reckoning
Our business elite need to actively engage in a wider conversation about a new India. Instead of merely obsessing about GDP growth, business leaders need to speak out openly about our lopsided economic model
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The man who knew tomorrow
In this extract from his book, ‘Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India', Vinay Sitapati talks about the attributes that enabled Rao to manage the politics of reforms. His ability to assess the situation and play mouse, lion or fox—as need be—was Rao’s paramount political skill
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Vinay Sitapati
Political scientist, journalist, lawyer
·Leadership & Organisation
The Narasimha Rao they don't want you to know of
When the political mastermind of Indian economic reforms died, the apocryphal hand of the party he was part of, deserted him. Only a few were there. Those who knew what he really accomplished, like Dr. Manmohan Singh
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Technology & the Future
This week in disruptive tech—July 18, 2016
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Pokémon Go, the shift from print to digital media, bitcoins and the maturing of digital currency, and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Lessons from the road
Entrepreneurs oftentimes stand at the crossroads. What road do you choose then? The one that leads to valuations? Or that to a life well lived?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
The undiscovered virtues of data storytelling
Rich insights from tables and charts won’t be enough. People connect to stories
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Nitin Srivastava
CEO, Toqfactor Technologies
·Leadership & Organisation
Untangling messy people issues
People-related issues are complex and unpredictable. Elicit stories about them to understand patterns and design the right interventions
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder, Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Good coaches listen deep, question hard, challenge status quo
Like in sport, in business too a coach can hold the space and engage a star player to sort out his game when going through a rough patch
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Leadership & Organisation
Sex, work and harassment
India Inc needs to do more to make the workplace fair, equitable and safe for women
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Aadhaar: A quiet disruption
Having registered one billion Indians, the team behind Aadhaar is now creating a digital infrastructure—the India Stack—that promises to disrupt financial services, make service delivery dramatically cheaper and efficient and boost the startup ecosystem
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel