August 7, 2021 | FF Daily #444: Sports puts human beings in tough situations, and millions watch how they respond. There is much to learn

• Read Time : 7 mins

• Tags
• Steve Waugh
• Unmukt Chand
• Virat Kohli
• Michael Phelps
• Simon Taufel
• Leadership
• MS Dhoni
• FF Recommends
• Roger Federer
• learning from sports
• coaching

Gig-mindsetters are any entity’s secret weapon in these volatile times. Who exactly are they, and how can leaders nurture them? Jane McConnell, Ravi Venkatesan, and Santosh Desai offer different lenses to understand and encourage this new breed

• Play Time : 94 mins

• Tags
• Jane McConnell
• Santosh Desai
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Leadership
• gig mindset
• organisational culture
• innovators
• Masterclass
• workplace trends
• Change management
• Ravi Venkatesan

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
• Tim Harford
• Jane McConnell
• Digital transformation
• Leadership
• Anand Deshpande
• online education
• gig mindset
• Chinmay Tumbe
• virtual schools
• FF Recommends

June 16, 2021: Learnings from the struggle for gay rights; The bureaucrat and the politician; [Song] We Shall Overcome

• Read Time : 5 mins

• Tags
• diversity
• Gopalkrishna Gandhi
• inclusion
• leadership
• Orhan Pamuk
• Joan Baez
• fiction
• We Shall Overcome
• Pride Month

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

• Tags
• Persistent Systems
• technology trends
• leadership
• Anand Deshpande

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

• Read Time : 9 mins

• Tags
• women at work
• women entrepreneurs
• Leadership
• Women Leaders
• Career Paths
• Adam Grant
• Workplace culture

March 19, 2021: How to learn bottom up; What after being vaccinated?; What are friends for?

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

• Tags
• Shyamala Goplanan
• Kamala Harris
• Aarti Shahani
• Martin Bjergegaard
• Leadership
• Systems Thinking
• Cosmina Popa
• books
• M. Rajshekhar
• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

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

• Tags
• Noubar Afeyan
• Leadership
• Covid-19 vaccine
• Moderna
• Liz Wiseman
• Jack Ma
• Tyler Cowen

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

• Tags
• Haresh Chawla
• Saundra Dalton-Smith
• Nandan Nilekani
• Leadership
• rest
• Jacqueline Novogratz
• Thomas Friedman