November 9, 2021: The art of consent; The 4-day work week; The patience prayer

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Donella H. Meadows
• 4-day work week
• Systems Thinking
• Account Aggregators

Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation

• Read Time : 10 mins

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• Michael Sandel
• Kurt Godel
• Marianna Mazucatto
• Deep listening
• Greta's Dilemma
• Impossibility Theorem
• Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Kenneth Arrow
• Systems Thinking
• climate change

The vaccine crisis is yet another proof that principles of capitalism are at variance with the needs of humanity. Instead of top-down policies, focus on profits and economies of scale, local on-the-ground solutions and the economies of scope that they bring, can be the founding fuel for transformative change

• Read Time : 15 mins

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• Covid-19 vaccine IPR
• local solutions
• economies of scope
• economics policy frameworks
• Deep listening
• Governance
• Systems Thinking
• capitalism

March 27, 2021 | FF Daily #334: Five Founding Fuel stories that give an inkling of how the ground is shifting

• Read Time : 9 mins

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• Higher education
• FF Recommends
• trendspotting
• state capacity
• best stories
• Mental Health
• Global Rule of Three
• Systems Thinking

March 1, 2021: Walter Isaacson on passionate curiosity; Why local experience matters; France’s repairability index; How to measure our lives

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Benjamin Franklin
• Steve Jobs
• Curiosity
• Adam Grant
• Leonardo da Vinci
• France’s repairability index
• Jeff Bezos
• Walter Isaacson
• Systems Thinking
• Ada Lovelace
• Albert Einstein

A learning session with Arun Maira, Harish Hande, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and M Rajshekhar

• Play Time : 112 mins
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• state capacity
• Systems change
• M Rajshekhar
• books
• Arun Maira
• Systems Thinking
• Harish Hande
• Mekhala Krishnamurthy

February 2, 2021: Simple rules for complex systems; Christine Darden on working in a male dominated culture; Selfie in the age of Clubhouse

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Total Quality Movement
• Toyota
• women at work
• street food
• Arun Maira
• Christine Darden
• Systems Thinking
• Vishal Jindal

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

Four books show why and how we must reconnect the economy and technology with humanity

• Read Time : 11 mins

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• The Universe in a Single Atom
• Unemployment
• Madhav Govindu
• systematic change
• Systems Thinking
• The Tyranny of Merit
• Michael Sandel
• informal economy
• Deepak Malghan
• Sven Beckert
• J.C. Kumurappa
• ethics in technology
• Dalai Lama
• Empire of Cotton
• books

A message for social change-makers seeking ‘impact on scale’ even as sources of funding dry up: Stay focused on the purpose (the doughnut) and not the scale and brand of your organisation (the hole). Innovate. And learn to be a catalyst

• Read Time : 8 mins

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• Social innovation
• local solutions
• transforming systems
• Systems Thinking
• Social Entrepreneurship