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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

• Read Time : 5 mins

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

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

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
• 2020 in photos
• reflection
• learning to learn
• D Shivakumar
• R Sriram
• 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
• post-Covid world
• best books
• the reading habit
• D Shivakumar
• learning to learn
• COVID-19
• R Sriram
• leadership
• 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
• World in 2021
• best of 2020
• D Shivakumar
• Clay Johnson
• Integrity
• Joe Biden
• 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

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

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

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

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

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• 2 Comments

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