·Business & Strategy
Understanding the TikTok phenomenon
A Facebook Live conversation with Piyul Mukherjee from Quipper Research; Damodar Mall from Reliance Retail; and Ashwin Suresh from Pocket Aces
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·Business & Strategy
TikTok: More than 15-seconds of fame?
Is it a passing fad? Is it here to stay? A multimedia story on what’s driving the phenomenon
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·Leadership & Organisation
Do I need a “Killer Instinct”?
People lose out by conforming to gender stereotypes. You need to develop a wider repertoire of styles crucial to leadership
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Kalpana Tatavarti
Founder Director, Parity Consulting & Training Pvt Ltd
·Leadership & Organisation
Learning to stay relevant
Bridging the knowledge gap in a changing world, how leaders stay relevant, and the method behind Roger Federer’s magic
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
A nudge against sleep and productivity
Trying to stay more informed, entertained, educated, mindful, and fit? More apps, subscriptions, and content is counter-productive
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Three must-read books on strategy for the digital era
We need new frameworks and approaches to re-think strategy and how it should be formulated and taught in this new age. That’s what I learnt from my recent personal learning journey.
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB, Professor of Strategy
·Technology & the Future
The balancing act
July 9, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Nudge vs. boost, Superhuman fiasco, Monopoly’s origins, Amazon’s liability and problems with brain restoration
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
The Tao of customer service
The job of a customer service executive is not just to solve a problem, but also to ensure that the problems don't repeat ever again
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·Technology & the Future
Technology is politics
July 3, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Huawei, AltSchool, Sidewalk Labs, Chernobyl and mobile market
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Must reads: Five books on the surprising traits of best employees & leaders
The best books of 2019 (so far) on finding people with unique strengths, coaching, productive meetings, and bad bosses
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner, Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Embrace chaos and ambiguity to build world class software products
Products often mean you are embarking on a choppy, risky, longish journey. You are thinking about a customer problem from first principles, with no sight of when you will get anywhere close to a business model, revenues, customers and profits
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Amit Ranjan
Architect for the National Digital Locker Project, Ministry of Electronics and IT
·Technology & the Future
What, me trust?
June 24, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Deepfakes, Facebook’s Libra, CRISPR, Slack IPO and Oxford University
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The difficulty of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs operate in an environment where consumers want the best a capitalist society can offer, but insist on protectionism of the kind only a socialist system confers
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Paving the road for world-beating software products from India
India’s new software products policy marks a watershed moment in its economic history. Can the nation make it count?
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Amit Ranjan
Architect for the National Digital Locker Project, Ministry of Electronics and IT
·Business & Strategy
The ‘inside-out’ mindset for digital transformation
In “digital transformation”, transformation comes before technology. And the process begins with looking inside at your strengths and aligning them to the transformation process
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