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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

• Read Time : 5 mins

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

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

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

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
• best books
• post-Covid world
• D Shivakumar
• learning to learn
• books
• leadership

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

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

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

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

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

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

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