·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
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Lessons in crisis leadership from four stories of survival
These leaders defied life-and-death crises. Their stories offer a beacon for business leaders on how to steer their teams out of this pandemic-induced crisis
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Leadership in a crisis: How to bend without breaking
How can you deliver business continuity if you are churned up and anxious inside? More importantly, how can you use this crisis as a springboard to shape the future, instead of merely coping with it? A 7-day practical plan to cultivate resilience in a crisis.
·Leadership Practice and Development
11 things to explore, learn and reflect on in 2020
Articles, podcasts, books and courses for leaders and learners
·Leadership Practice and Development
Ten best business books of 2019
What Uber, Netflix and Walt Disney Company show us about thriving in a tech world; leadership skills for sustainable success; and how human behaviour shapes decisions
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
Your firm’s culture: What you do is who you are
Culture cannot be an afterthought for tech transformation. It has to be an essential part of it
·Leadership Practice and Development
Is imposter syndrome holding you back?
The syndrome shows its worst form when we are given a platform to operate on and we choose to occupy only a small part of it. But there’s a simple way to beat back the self-doubt that holds even accomplished people back. An excerpt from the book, ‘Lady, You’re the Boss’, by Apurva Purohit
·Leadership Practice and Development
Creating Ethical Leaders: Will management education rethink its role?
Two factors are causing a rethink on value systems: environmental degradation and shifts in political power that reflect the voice of the disenfranchised. This new thinking will have to come from new coalitions of social thinkers, practitioners, academics, politicians and corporates
·Leadership Practice and Development
The necessity of curators
As the noise gets louder, curators double down on their efforts to focus on the essentials
·Leadership Practice and Development
Finding the CEO in you
Elena L. Botelho, bestselling author of ‘The CEO Next Door’ and partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART, explains why most people misunderstand what it takes to get the corner office
·Leadership Practice and Development
Spot change as it happens gradually. Or get swept away suddenly
When we miss seeing the small shifts that happen by the passing minute, we get presented with the big disruption one fine day
·Leadership Practice and Development
Is feedback always useful?
In this issue: The Aadhaar ordinance, why excellence is not the opposite of failure, and why leaders need to be ‘AI bilingual’
·Leadership Practice and Development
Top 10 Business Books of 2018
Books about the evolution of India's billionaires, understanding data, shared values, the economy, organisational culture, the risks and rewards of technology, and the rise of strongmen
·Leadership Practice and Development
Why GyShiDo trumps perfection and leaders eat first
As popular notions go, the sky is not always blue, one must aim for perfection, there are many bad people and leaders eat last. Seriously?
·Leadership Practice and Development
The lost leadership skill of listening
Why strong leaders listen, why AI may not be all that threatening, and why trust will beat empty opinions
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
Opinion is free. But is it trustworthy?
That those in the media are toast is now part of popular opinion. But the fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
·Leadership Practice and Development
Who we are is shaped by the questions we ask
This Week: How do you work with adaptive systems, why a tech mindset is not enough, and how do you measure achievement
·Leadership Practice and Development
The ridiculous “Principles” of Ray Dalio
If money be the only metric to measure the worth of a man, Ray Dalio is a hugely successful creature and his “Principles” are worth emulating. But the unexamined life is not worth living or emulating either
·Leadership Practice and Development
It’s time to ask some tough questions
This Week: Leadership, corporate governance and the Infosys saga; Gorakhpur—a long road to recovery; and living in a tech-dominated world
·Leadership Practice and Development
The unfolding Infosys leadership paradox
We rarely get a live case study to engage with and test a proposition. The unfolding Infosys saga offers us a ready-made case to test my last week’s essay, ‘The leadership paradox’
·Leadership Practice and Development
The leadership paradox
It is impossible to achieve one’s leadership ambition or leverage diverse resources without pooling power. And power pooling cannot be achieved without negotiation—or power trading and trade-offs