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Strategic Intent
Why we fail at execution
Lack of alignment can trip up even the most well-intentioned change process. Here’s what you can do to fix it.
- Indrajit Gupta
- May 27, 2017 8:05a.m.
Lessons from a mutating world
The only way to survive the future is in engaging and learning from multiple minds and disciplines
The end of the office: Managing remote workers and other challenges
For a variety of reasons—technological, economic, and social—the office as we knew it for most of the 20th century is going away. We look at the challenges the new office creates for managers and workers
The art of thinking and usefulness of mental models
This Week: Mental models, insights from Arnold Palmer’s memoir, business lessons from Jeff Bezos, coaching and working with talent, and more
The Tao of thinking
There are two ways to think. Like you would usually. Or apply models, try to think like others would, and examine the world from multiple perspectives
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‘Playing boldly is a philosophy’: Life lessons from golf legend Arnold Palmer
Nicknamed The King, Arnold Palmer played a big role in making golf popular and not just a game for the elite. His rivalry with Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus is legendary. In his memoir ‘A Life Well Played’, he shares his experiences
Innovation: Starting with the real jobs that need to be done
This Week: Clayton Christensen on innovation, Aadhaar and deliberative democracy, the rise and fall of Nokia, Snapdeal and Flipkart, and more
The technology of democracy
Democracy is in peril with innovations in technology running too far ahead of innovations in democracy’s processes
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How Nokia rewrote its story
In his book ‘Against All Odds’, Nokia’s former CEO Jorma Ollila chronicles how a troubled conglomerate engaged in rubber, cable, forestry, electronics and power generation businesses became a global mobile phone behemoth, but lost out to the iPhone
Clayton Christensen on innovation: Finding the jobs to be done
According to the famed business professor, innovation is about finding the “jobs to be done” in our lives
