July 10, 2021 | FF Daily #420: Understanding the various direct and indirect ways the pandemic is changing how we live and work

• Read Time : 7 mins

• Tags
• Digital transformation
• Anand Deshpande
• Tim Harford
• Chinmay Tumbe
• gig mindset
• Leadership
• Jane McConnell
• virtual schools
• online education
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June 16, 2021: Learnings from the struggle for gay rights; The bureaucrat and the politician; [Song] We Shall Overcome

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• diversity
• Joan Baez
• leadership
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• Pride Month
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After scaling up, do you get a professional to lead as CEO or continue at the helm? Where do you draw the lines between ownership and management? Is it better to exit totally or wait until the kids have grown up? If they want to, how do you induct them? When a crisis happens, do you step in or let professionals handle it? These are questions that Anand Deshpande, founder and chairman of Persistent Systems, has wrestled with and opens up on in this candid conversation

• Play Time : 62 mins

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On the virtues of underconfidence, saying yes to “no”, ending ‘manologues’, and more

• Read Time : 9 mins

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• Women Leaders
• Career Paths
• Adam Grant
• Leadership
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March 19, 2021: How to learn bottom up; What after being vaccinated?; What are friends for?

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• leadership
• Joerg Esser
• Covid-19 vaccine
• Learning Culture
• Margaret Heffernan

January 21, 2021: Examine and deal with fears; The connection between Odisha’s education boom and mining; Kamala Harris and the rise of the alpha desi female; Late to work?

• Read Time : 5 mins

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• books
• M. Rajshekhar
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• Cosmina Popa
• Aarti Shahani
• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Leadership
• Martin Bjergegaard
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January 19, 2021: Liz Wiseman on leadership; Jack Ma vs the Chinese state; How Moderna’s vaccine was 33 years in the making; Who runs the government?

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Jack Ma
• Leadership
• Tyler Cowen
• Covid-19 vaccine
• Noubar Afeyan
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January 8, 2021: Trendspotting with Nandan Nilekani and Haresh Chawla; Jacqueline Novogratz on understanding communities; Seven types of rest; Time and distance: Special Theory of Relativity

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Nandan Nilekani
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• Leadership
• rest
• Haresh Chawla
• Thomas Friedman

January 4, 2021: Why we should aspire for a new decentralised economic model; Soumya Swaminathan reflects on the pandemic; The first rule of 2021

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• decentralised economic model
• WHO
• The Dalai Lama
• books
• leadership
• Arun Maira
• Soumya Swaminathan
• Decision Making

Some reflections on leadership, thinking, what matters most now, gratitude, hope, renewal and more as I review 2020

• Read Time : 9 mins

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• Marta Zaraska
• James Clear
• Esther Duflo
• Patricia Mou
• John Gardner
• Leadership
• Robert Waldinger
• Vanessa D’Souza
• Rutger Bregman
• Thomas Friedman
• George Saunders
• Dov Seidman
• Patrick O’Shaughnessy
• Daniel Friedland
• Harsh Mander
• Naval Ravikant
• Tim Urban
• Marshall Goldsmith
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