·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Lessons from a 4-day old start up
Eight lessons that emerged in setting Founding Fuel up
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Moonlighting or an old-fashioned mindset?
Employment contracts are often unfair—and they thwart the creativity of individuals and firms. Like Swiggy, which is allowing employees to take up side gigs, others need to take a fresh look at what is right
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TN Hari
Co-Founder, Artha School of Entrepreneurship
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Everybody loves a good fight
To build an Indian software product company from Chennai is tough. Freshdesk did it. And it is now taking the fight to its US rival Zendesk.
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Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Frustrated freedoms: When aspirations collide with realities
There's increasing tension within Indian society and a growing sense of unfairness. Those with resources - capital, education or political connections - become very wealthy, while others wait for 'ache din'
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Leadership & Organisation
What you can learn on leadership and career success from The Real-Life MBA
PepsiCo India's CEO shares insights from Jack and Suzy Welch's latest book
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Author
·Economy, Policy & Society
State Vs Big Tech: The three drivers of Chinese techlash
China has taken a U-turn from boosting its tech firms as ‘national champions’. In part 1 of this 4-part series on the global moves to rein in Big Tech, we explore the political, economic and social motivations of the Chinese state in clipping the wings of its consumer-tech giants
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Economy, Policy & Society
An ethical toolkit for systems transformers
Sustainable progress of humanity requires a new toolkit with three disciplines: systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and collaborative enterprise design
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Business & Strategy
Has Samsung Electronics been fired?
Recalling 2.5 million handsets is the best decision a leader can make argues an outlier. Consensus and evidence says it is the worst
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
How the media has let down democracy
Journalists need to be heard to be able to convey truths. But social media has dumbed down public discourse and made it difficult for reflective commentators to be heard
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How TVF took the digital jungle by storm
In this video, Arunabh Kumar, founder of The Viral Fever, talks about what helps them stand out. In a word, content
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·Economy, Policy & Society
As debate rages over AI displacing jobs, history offers some insights
The dawn of IT in Indian banking from the 1950s to the 1980s teaches important lessons that are valid in today’s context
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
·Economy, Policy & Society
The technology of democracy
Democracy is in peril with innovations in technology running too far ahead of innovations in democracy’s processes
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What layoffs at Zomato, TinyOwl and Housing.com says about online start-ups in India
Are they the first signs of a bursting bubble or that the start-up ecosystem is robust and can make midcourse corrections?
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The half-life of truth is 45 years
There is an old saying that goes, when the facts change, I change my mind. What will you do when you get obsolete? Or when everything changes, overnight?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
The Challenge of Silos
In an interesting new book, ‘The Silo Effect’, financial journalist Gillian Tett points out that how you are structured influences how you look at the world and how you approach problems.
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB, Professor of Strategy