·Leadership Practice and Development
The Blind Spots of India Inc
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
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·Leadership Practice and Development
When AI Raises the Average, Who Protects the Breakthrough?
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
The Quiet Work of Branding
Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025
·Digital transformation
When We Stopped Taking Things Apart
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
When Stories Move Faster Than Systems
Why AI-accelerated narratives are exposing leadership and capability gaps across organisations
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
When A Leader Stumbles
How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
The Paradox of Excellence
How IndiGo’s greatest strengths created the conditions for the December 2025 crisis — and what it reveals about the limits of high-performance systems. Part One of a two part special series
·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
Terry Szuplat on the Art of Powerful Communication
Seven takeaways from a conversation with President Barack Obama’s speechwriter
·Leadership Practice and Development
From Cubs to Leaders
What the tiger’s journey through the wild teaches us about leadership growth
·Leadership Practice and Development
They Don't Make Them Like Tino Anymore
McKinsey’s first Indian hire. Mentor to generations. Architect of an enduring legacy
·Digital transformation
Maps, History, and Finding the Throughline
AI-driven, multi-layered maps could change how we understand power, culture, and the choices future generations will inherit
·Leadership Practice and Development
Zoho’s New CEO, Same Grounded Playbook
As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
AI171: Human Error, Design Flaw, or Something Else?
The mystery lives on. But now we have facts
·Digital transformation
Nuance is the new differentiator
When every team has access to the same AI tools, your advantage will be in knowing what wasn’t said
·Leadership Practice and Development
My 10 best business books of summer 2025
On what makes a leader, how to stop wasting energy on the wrong things, speaking well, the history of attention, understanding India’s economic planning, and more
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
After the Crash: A Test of Leadership and Legacy
In the shadow of the Air India AI171 tragedy, the Tata Group faces a crucible moment—echoing a corporate crisis from four decades ago that still defines leadership under pressure
·Digital transformation
AI in Schools: Not a Generational Divide, but a Dialogue Waiting to Happen
Two years since ChatGPT entered classrooms, students and teachers are already using AI in everyday learning. Official policies may be slow to catch up, but a quiet reckoning is underway—through whispers, workarounds, and growing calls for clarity
·Leadership Practice and Development
The checklist trap: How we turned leadership into a lifestyle product
Leadership conversations are increasingly about what can be measured and instant results. Yet, many of the most powerful shifts in leadership show up quietly
·Digital transformation
Embracing AI without losing ourselves
As the machines are advancing relentlessly, do we let AI think for us, or do we stay actively human?
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
FF Live: Managing Corporate Reputation in the Digital Age
18 takeaways on crisis management and trust-building
·Digital transformation
AI in Academia: The Grind, the Gain, and the Great Recalibration
Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
How L&T completely muffed up a valuable teachable moment
Around the world, CEOs, even the smartest of the lot, are known to occasionally suffer from a foot-in-the-mouth disease. Yet there are playbooks in place on how to deal with such crises–something that L&T has chosen to ignore.
·Leadership Practice and Development
Leaders vs. bosses: What does it take to become a leader?
Fireside chat: Ajay Piramal, Nitin Paranjpe and Dr Anil Khandelwal, in conversation with Indrajit Gupta
·Leadership Practice and Development
Founding Fuel Live | The Best Business Books of 2024
A Founding Fuel Live conversation between D Shivakumar and Ramesh Srinivasan, co-author, ‘The Journey of Leadership’
·Digital transformation
AMA on EVs with Hormazd Sorabjee and Pranav S: 22 Takeaways
Whom is an EV best for? What is the viable life of an EV? Do they have resale value? These and more questions answered
·Consumer Tech
What they don’t tell you about EVs in India
A guide to owning electric cars and scooters—from ease of use, to running costs, charging networks, reliability, and more
·Digital transformation
The Age of Information
Insights from Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’
·Leadership Practice and Development
The red flags in your team
An excerpt from Dr Dana Sinclair’s new book, ‘Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most’
·Leadership Practice and Development
Behind Crotonville’s demise
It is tempting to dismiss corporate universities as a relic of a bygone era. The reality may well be a bit more nuanced
·Leadership Practice and Development
Tales of transitions
Many competent leaders from different domains aspire to join public life. But the transition is never an easy one
·Leadership Practice and Development
Indian cricket’s moment of truth
BCCI faces a set of crucial decisions ahead that could set the pace for the future
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
Why building corporate democracies still matter
In this age of AI, creating an employee-first culture may seem counter-intuitive. But not if you believe in the primacy of building human relationships at the workplace
·Platforms & Data Economy
Fintech Special Report Part 3: The limits of algos
Fintechs bet on data and algos to know the credit-worthiness of the underserved. However, there's a gap in what the data can reveal because of consumer behaviour. Part 3 of a 4-part series
·Leadership Practice and Development
Building leaders for and in India
What do we need more of: leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a make-in-India mindset?
·Leadership Practice and Development
The Top 10 business and leadership books of 2022
Books about a fearless industrialist, building a great culture, regret and fulfilment, building careers, world strategy, reinventing work, and becoming a strategist
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
When India made its first computer
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) had a pivotal role in shaping India’s computer-tech capability, as early as the 1960s. An extract from ‘Against All Odds: The IT Story of India’ by Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan
·Digital transformation
FF Insights 712: Tech & the three crises facing humanity
August 8, 2022: SuperSable, Problem with Instagram?, Gender and physics
·Leadership Practice and Development
The Musk-Alexander syndrome
Leaders like Elon Musk defy the normative leadership framework. They have strong critics, but also build institutions. How do we decode their success?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #702: Wise compassionate leadership
July 26, 2022: Rethinking smartwatches; Climate change and pandemics; Getting things done
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #694: The Freaky Friday management technique
July 14, 2022: Nilekani on the future; Indian English; The Uber Files
·Leadership Practice and Development
A book that raises important questions on ‘servant leaders’
Book review: Tata’s Leadership Experiment: The Story of the Tata Administrative Service
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Insights #679: Five habits that matter
June 23, 2022: TV debates versus real politics; Indian protest rap; Thursday thoughts
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Insights #676: Hero worship matters
June 20, 2022: Lessons from Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu; Amazon hits RESET; Rare pictures
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making
FF Insights #675: Mimetic desire
June 17, 2022: What cricket lost; The upside of negativity; #AllSleepMatters
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
FF Insights #666: How to clean up a scam
June 6, 2022: SoftBank’s underbelly; The worrisome legacy of Jack Welch; Procrastination explained
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Insights #631: People matter more
April 14, 2022: The rise and rise of Canva, Being digital, Design challenges
·Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
FF Insights #628: Taking people along
April 11, 2022: The Great Transition; The difficulty of being good; Role reversal
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
Rushing back to office
There are signs of growing impatience among CEOs to abandon the hybrid work experiment and return to office permanently. What’s driving this sentiment? And could it scupper change?
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Insights #614: The nature of buildings
March 22, 2022: The rest of 2022; The outliers; The evolution of life