·Leadership & Organisation
Why we fail at execution
Lack of alignment can trip up even the most well-intentioned change process. Here’s what you can do to fix it.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
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·Leadership & Organisation
The end of the office: Managing remote workers and other challenges
For a variety of reasons—technological, economic, and social—the office as we knew it for most of the 20th century is going away. We look at the challenges the new office creates for managers and workers
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The art of thinking and usefulness of mental models
This Week: Mental models, insights from Arnold Palmer’s memoir, business lessons from Jeff Bezos, coaching and working with talent, and more
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Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The Tao of thinking
There are two ways to think. Like you would usually. Or apply models, try to think like others would, and examine the world from multiple perspectives
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Innovation: Starting with the real jobs that need to be done
This Week: Clayton Christensen on innovation, Aadhaar and deliberative democracy, the rise and fall of Nokia, Snapdeal and Flipkart, and more
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Founding Fuel
·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
·Business & Strategy
How Nokia rewrote its story
In his book ‘Against All Odds’, Nokia’s former CEO Jorma Ollila chronicles how a troubled conglomerate engaged in rubber, cable, forestry, electronics and power generation businesses became a global mobile phone behemoth, but lost out to the iPhone
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·Business & Strategy
Clayton Christensen on innovation: Finding the jobs to be done
According to the famed business professor, innovation is about finding the “jobs to be done” in our lives
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Leadership & Organisation
Navigating shades of grey
This Week: A framework for making tough calls, the Patanjali phenomenon, artificial intelligence, LEGO’s platform strategy, and more
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Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Two idiots and three pigs
How do generals win a war? By pacing themselves right even as they use idiots and pigs to protect their soldiers
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Making tough calls in business and life
In his book ‘Managing in the Gray’, HBS ethics professor Joseph L Badaracco presents a framework to arrive at the best possible decisions in a hard situation
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·Leadership & Organisation
Nuance, diversity and dialogue
This Week: Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, reflection and dialogue, challenging stereotypes, and more
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Founding Fuel
·Technology & the Future
The Cluetrain Manifesto for our times
This week: Technology and preparing for the future, customer obsession, working with constraints and more
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Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Moderate constraints actually boost creativity. Here's why
The popular belief is creative minds work best in unstructured, open-ended environments. But some research suggests that the opposite might be true
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Technology & the Future
The Sceptical Optimist: A philosopher’s take on technological progress
In this interview Nicholas Agar, author of ‘The Sceptical Optimist’, talks about why unquestioning enthusiasm and a blanket rejection of technological change are equally misguided
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel