Iconic brands have a strong core. Any attempt to transform the core, driven by big consumer and lifestyle changes, can be particularly tricky, as global sportswear brand Nike discovered recently

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• Brand promise
• leadership
• innovation
• John Donahoe
• Iconic brands
• Elliott Hill
• Nike

Climate change is undoing the gains India made from the green revolution. In this extract from his book, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy talks about how, in the struggle to respond, companies like Mahyco are experimenting with genetic engineering to create new super-crops

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• Simon Mundy
• innovation
• climate change
• book extract

November 8, 2021: How innovation happens; Understanding productivity; Karma vs professionalism

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• Productivity
• Morgan Housel
• Innovation
• Priorities
• Haruki Murakami

August 17, 2021: How Giant Bicycles became a leading brand; The power of digital vouchers; What Indians want

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• RS Sharma
• Chris Hedges
• Afghanistan
• Dan Breznitz
• Innovation
• Ashok Pal Singh
• Giant Bicycles
• The Great Game
• digital vouchers
• e-RUPI

As technology becomes ubiquitous in day-to-day living, and its role in the economy grows, the importance of knowledge will increase manifold. This knowledge economy will require far deeper specialization, as disciplines get more complex. And also people with a broad understanding of multiple disciplines. An excerpt from Kiran Karnik’s new book, ‘Decisive Decade’

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• humanisation
• Education
• Innovation
• specialists vs generalists
• Automation
• book extract
• knowledge economy
• AI

July 6, 2021: Innovate to solve immediate and consequential problems; Vaccine hesitancy; The space race; Thinking time

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• Jeff Bezos
• innovation
• Scott Galloway
• Space travel
• vaccine hesitancy
• Vaclav Smil

July 1, 2021: A policy window to make healthcare efficient; How Moderna works; Be mindful

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• Kodak
• Public Healthcare
• Change management
• Plan Nacer
• Martin Hirt
• Nachiket Mor
• Matthew Harrison
• Jason Kelly
• Chris Bradley
• John Kingdon
• Innovation
• disruptive innovation
• Sandhya Venkateswaran
• Sven Smit
• Moderna
• Tarun Khanna

June 30, 2021: Clayton Christensen on reframing the problem; A new normal in Singapore; Michael Holding on racism; How teachers feel now

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• Singapore Covid response
• the Wright brothers
• Michael Holding
• innovation
• racism
• reframing the problem
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
• Clayton Christensen

December 14, 2020: Ramachandra Guha on Vinoo Mankad; How to decline Zoom meetings that are not relevant to you; Elon Musk on making your products the best they can be; Mona Lisa smile

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• Innovation
• Ramachandra Guha
• Vinoo Mankad
• Elon Musk
• better meetings
• Janeen Gelbart

October 16, 2020: Francis Fukuyama on liberalism; China’s Digital Silk Route; Scott Anthony on DBS Bank; You get what you pay for

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• Tags
• Andy Parker
• China's Digital Silk Route
• Francis Fukuyama
• Piyush Gupta
• Innosight
• tolerance
• Work From Home
• Paul Cobban
• Innovation
• Natalie Painchaud
• Scott Anthony
• Liberalism
• DBS Bank