Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces
Vineet Kaul
HR Advisor and Mentor
In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over
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Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
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When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader
How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang
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Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
John Kay—one of the world’s leading thinkers on economics, corporate purpose, and capitalism—explores why individualism remains so deeply entrenched, even as it fuels inequality, populism, and institutional decay. Part 1 of a two-part conversation
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The real job of management is managing the not always compatible expectations of stakeholders, says John Kay. The organizations that have been successful in the long run are the ones that managed these balances. Part 2 of a two-part conversation
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Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
Inspired by Brisbane’s “Vibrantly Vacant” windows—on how renewal begins in life’s pauses
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
The government is not as a machine to fix, but a living system to serve: a conversation with Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur, author, and public servant
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Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
