January 4, 2022: Convenience culture; The best business books of 2021; How Shein beat Amazon; Incredible India

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• FF Insights
• Shein
• Oliver Burkeman
• best books
• D Shivakumar
• Convenience culture

October 21, 2021: Steve Jobs; The power of owning one’s mistakes; Clear instructions

• Read Time : 5 mins

• Tags
• Global supply crunch
• Steve Jobs
• Colin Powell
• D Shivakumar
• Walter Isaacson

February 17, 2021: Philip Delves Broughton on Francis Crick and how to decide what to do with your life; Delhi school reform’s upstream problem; McKinsey and the moral responsibility of enterprise; Number Theory

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• Francis Crick
• Purdue Pharma
• Philip Delves Broughton
• business education
• Georg Kreisel
• Dan Heath
• Delhi school reform
• Tom Peters
• McKinsey
• business ethics
• Arun Maira
• OxyContin
• D Shivakumar

December 24, 2020: Reinvigorate our minds: Lessons from The Best Business Books of 2020; The year in photos: uncertainty, joy, and hope; What’s more basic than food?

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• R Sriram
• reflection
• 2020 in photos
• Sarthak Banerjee
• learning to learn
• D Shivakumar
• books

In Founding Fuel’s learning session, D Shivakumar, in conversation with R Sriram, discusses what’s different about his best books selection this year. He also shares some of his superpower secrets about how he is able to nurture the discipline to read in the midst of a busy professional life

• Play Time : 55 mins

• Tags
• the reading habit
• R Sriram
• COVID-19
• post-Covid world
• leadership
• best books
• learning to learn
• D Shivakumar
• books

December 15, 2020: Clay Johnson on integrity; The 10 best business and leadership books of 2020; Joe Biden’s next big test; A Twitter poll in real life

• Read Time : 5 mins

• Tags
• Integrity
• Clay Johnson
• Joe Biden
• best of 2020
• D Shivakumar
• World in 2021
• books

August 15, 2020: Independence Day Special | Six books for our times; a personal history of the internet (25th anniversary of VSNL launching internet in India); think outside the box

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• Rajdeep Sardesai
• D Shivakumar
• Aaron Roth
• Rahul Matthan
• Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
• Chiki Sarkar
• Rama Bijapurkar
• books
• Ramachandra Guha
• Aarti Kelshikar
• EF Schumacher
• Work From Home
• Independence Day Special
• Arun Maira
• Tony Joseph
• Vikram Seth
• Michael Kearns

July 1: Don’t stop with rules, be passionate, think big

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Priya Doraswamy
• Fritjof Capra
• Systems Thinking
• Rajesh Srivastava
• publishing
• books
• The New Rules of Business
• D Shivakumar

This Week: Carlos Ghosn and GE’s fall from grace, D Shivakumar’s list of best books of 2018, and a compass for the year ahead

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• General Electric
• yearcompass
• Measure What Matters
• Carlos Ghosn
• D Shivakumar
• The Driver in the Driverless Car
• Books

Having the right role models is critical to nudging us in the right direction. India needs to look beyond film stars, cricketers and politicians

• Read Time : 4 mins
• 2 Comments

• Tags
• Bezwada Wilson
• Neeraj Kayal
• Rajiv Menon
• Anshu Gupta
• role models
• Anita Datar
• Ramachandra Guha
• Nitin Saxena
• Manindra Agrawal
• Saina Nehwal
• Arvind Subramanian
• D Shivakumar
• Sania Mirza