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From Cubs to Leaders
What the tiger’s journey through the wild teaches us about leadership growth
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They Don't Make Them Like Tino Anymore
McKinsey’s first Indian hire. Mentor to generations. Architect of an enduring legacy
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Character is about who we choose to be
Insights from General Stanley McChrystal’s new book ‘On Character: Choices That Define a Life’. The book is in Shivakumar’s list of best books of summer 2025
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The checklist trap: How we turned leadership into a lifestyle product
Leadership conversations are increasingly about what can be measured and instant results. Yet, many of the most powerful shifts in leadership show up quietly
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Founding Fuel Live | The Best Business Books of 2024
A Founding Fuel Live conversation between D Shivakumar and Ramesh Srinivasan, co-author, ‘The Journey of Leadership’
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Building a Premier Leadership Cadre: The TAS Story
Lessons from India Inc’s replica of the IAS
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FF Insights #628: Taking people along
April 11, 2022: The Great Transition; The difficulty of being good; Role reversal
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When is a consultant’s job done?
The fees they earn is not a measure of how well a consultant has served the client. These three stories of change—of BP’s turnaround, Mexico City’s municipal workers, and of young consultants who want to make a real difference—show what a consultant's job really is. Extracted from Arun Maira’s latest book, ‘The Solutions Factory: A Consultant’s Handbook for Problem-solving’
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FF Recommends: Learnings from sports
August 7, 2021 | FF Daily #444: Sports puts human beings in tough situations, and millions watch how they respond. There is much to learn
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FF Daily #307: The inner sense of captaincy
February 24, 2021: Facebook vs. Australian regulatory authorities; Lessons from a burnout; Keep it simple, stupid!
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FF Daily #276: The danger of single story
January 18, 2021: Different perspectives; Systems change; Mentoring; Generation gap
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Masterclass: The Future of the MBA
There are urgent issues emerging around the need for an MBA as a vehicle for social good. Also, Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of digitalisation by at least 5-10 years across many businesses. This too is forcing b-schools to revamp their curriculum and make it future ready
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WFH Daily #96: Reimagine education
June 27: Align strategy, operations and people management; reimagine education; don’t fire—fire up; be kind, whenever possible
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Bosses need to be coaches in the new workplace
Insights from Jim Clifton and Jim Harter’s book ‘It’s the Manager’. The book is based on the largest global study by Gallup on the future of work
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‘The power of coaching is to offer a different perspective’
Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle share what they learnt from their mentor, legendary coach Bill Campbell, in their book ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’
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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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Stay learning. Stay in charge
Companies struggle to manage the present and also remain relevant in the future. There’s a way to fix that. And it starts with a new approach to learning
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Bold ideas that challenge the status quo
This Week: Notes from the Milken Conference, bridging the digital divide, the myth of the Indian liberal and leadership lessons from #KohliVsKumble
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Is Anil Kumble as good? Is Virat Kohli that bad?
The truth lies somewhere in between. There is merit in listening to a story from every perspective. Some lessons on leadership may just emerge
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Ask these questions to make your coaching and leadership effective
Coaching is an essential leadership skill. And questions are a good way to open doors, says Michael Bungay Stanier in his book ‘The Coaching Habit’
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Good coaches listen deep, question hard, challenge status quo
Like in sport, in business too a coach can hold the space and engage a star player to sort out his game when going through a rough patch
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Sydney Finkelstein and the superboss playbook
Sydney Finkelstein, author of Superbosses, explains how to master the art of handling talent
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The most successful football manager shares how to be a great leader
Insights from the book ‘Leading’ by Alex Ferguson, former manager of Manchester United with Michael Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capital.
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Building a story repertoire
Here’s how you can create your own, easy to recall catalogue of stories for every business context
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Overturn perceptions that subvert a new strategy
What works and what doesn't when you have Doubting Thomases
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What leaders can do to become effective coaches for their teams
Business leaders are also expected to be effective coaches. Here's what they can learn from executive and life coach Keith Nelson's book, Your Total Coach
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