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

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

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

• Read Time : 5 mins

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• D Shivakumar
• Global supply crunch
• Walter Isaacson
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 2 Comments

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