·Behavioural Science,
When Stories Move Faster Than Systems
Why AI-accelerated narratives are exposing leadership and capability gaps across organisations
#Mental Models
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·Leadership Practice and Development
The One Leadership Skill We Forgot to Teach
In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline
·Leadership Practice and Development
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: How to Escape the Halfpinion Trap
In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
·Leadership Practice and Development
Practice making mistakes
An extract from ‘The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out’ by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Life: Best leadership books—7 essential reads
On the myths of leadership and developing a questioning mind on the norms that are handed down to us
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making
FF Insights #675: Mimetic desire
June 17, 2022: What cricket lost; The upside of negativity; #AllSleepMatters
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #651: Three levels of empathy
May 16, 2022: Indian VCs’ IIT bias; Rajapaksas’ manœuvres; Heatwave - an infographic
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #645: Elon Musk and the art of asking the right questions
May 6, 2022: Life in Shanghai; The journey of reusable plastic; A literal mess
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #587: It’s okay not to be okay
February 10, 2022: The rise of the creator economy; Becoming a better leader; A self-help book for introverts
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #583: Convictions
February 4, 2022: Where is the Indian media?; Coffee and climate change; Catastrophe
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #487: The risk-taking funnel
September 29, 2021: How to deal with pandemic induced ‘learning loss’; Understanding resilience; Bite the Apple
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #477: The pool of shared meaning
September 17, 2021: What’s with Infy and the I-T portal; A consultant’s job; Pressure
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #454: The importance of intuition
August 20, 2021: Vaccine politics; How managers can help introverted colleagues speak up; You are what you are
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Recommends: Learnings from sports
August 7, 2021 | FF Daily #444: Sports puts human beings in tough situations, and millions watch how they respond. There is much to learn
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #442: How an ability to listen saved the Apollo 13 crew
August 5, 2021: How to build a global company out of India; The glass ceiling cracks; A sliding door problem
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Daily #406: Organizational habits
June 24, 2021: Charles Duhigg on the power of habit; Why the problem with remote work is not remote work; What midlife crisis?; Do you keep too many tabs open in your browser?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #398: Why leaders need an ethical lens
June 15, 2021: Ram Charan on why operating within the boundaries of law is necessary, but not sufficient; What Vishy Anand really means; Twitter: India & Nigeria; [Song] It’s Okay
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Building resilience: from fear to growth
May 1, 2021 | FF Daily #362: FF Recommends
·Leadership Practice and Development
Reframing VUCA: What will it take for leaders to thrive in the next decade?
Futurist Bob Johansen talks about key principles from his new book ‘Full Spectrum Thinking’—which is the ability to make sense out of the future, across gradients of possibility, and take actions now to be a part of those possibilities
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #327: Familiarity breeds comfort
March 19, 2021: How to learn bottom up; What after being vaccinated?; What are friends for?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #311: What’s common to Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs & Albert Einstein
March 1, 2021: Walter Isaacson on passionate curiosity; Why local experience matters; France’s repairability index; How to measure our lives
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #307: The inner sense of captaincy
February 24, 2021: Facebook vs. Australian regulatory authorities; Lessons from a burnout; Keep it simple, stupid!
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #279: Underneath fear and uncertainty, there’s a new perspective
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?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #277: Multipliers vs Diminishers
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?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #273: The value of doubt
January 14, 2021: Richard Feynman on leaving room for doubt; How Mumbai Traffic Police became a brand; How to thrive in a vuca world; Privacy vs People
·Leadership Practice and Development
The 10 best business and leadership books of 2020
An inside look at US presidency, leadership, changing trends, and life after the pandemic
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #231: The limits of freedom
November 17, 2020: Bertrand Russell on liberty and regulation; A lesson from Barack Obama on the art of leadership; The fourth man; Fast & furious
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making
‘Trust is not a matter of morality, but of predictability’
Predicting behaviour isn’t rocket science, say Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth in their book, ‘Sizing People Up’. It is a social science, and requires you to apply the right equation of logic, strategy, scepticism, observational skills, and the ability to accept unwelcome truths
·Leadership Practice and Development
WFH Daily #137: The price of hubris
August 07, 2020: Why CEOs overpay for acquisitions; new world, new rules; WFH boundaries
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
New world, new rules and new mindsets
A panel discussion with Gaia Smart Cities’ Sumit Chowdhury and True North’s Haresh Chawla on the next gen’s abundance mindset, how digital businesses have changed the rules, and how to stay relevant