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WFH: Drinking from a fire hose
·Leadership & Organisation

WFH: Drinking from a fire hose

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?

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

Housebound, and working hard
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Housebound, and working hard

Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well

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Founding Fuel

Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine
·Technology & the Future

Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine

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

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

An inflection point is upon us
·Economy, Policy & Society

An inflection point is upon us

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale

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Founding Fuel

Anticipating inflection points
·Business & Strategy

Anticipating inflection points

Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’

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Masterclass: Shaping startup culture
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Masterclass: Shaping startup culture

‘We are customer-driven’, ‘we are data-driven’. Those are typical refrains from companies. But are they really? It all boils down to culture

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The hard questions of our times
·Economy, Policy & Society

The hard questions of our times

The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Product, pricing and philosophy
·Technology & the Future

Product, pricing and philosophy

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

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Why we should re-examine the clichés in our heads
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Why we should re-examine the clichés in our heads

They stop us from digging deeper. We fail to see the downsides. We miss interesting opportunities. The antidote is to consciously seek the opposite

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Making space for loonshots
·Business & Strategy

Making space for loonshots

How to make both loonshots and franchises successful inside an organisation

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Founding Fuel

The cooker affair: A cautionary tale of using science for political ends
·Economy, Policy & Society

The cooker affair: A cautionary tale of using science for political ends

In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?

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Arun Mohan Sukumar

Arun Mohan Sukumar

Author, lawyer, and cyber security expert

Why Indian technology projects haven’t made global impact
·Economy, Policy & Society

Why Indian technology projects haven’t made global impact

Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’

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N Dayasindhu

N Dayasindhu

Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital