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What looks like motivation—war footage, heroic narratives, calls to crush the competition—is often something else entirely: a system of thinking that rewires how organisations see markets, customers, and themselves
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
Subhashis Sinha & Nikunj Kumar Jain
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025
Indranil Gupta
Founder Director | BrandNEW Associates
Why AI-accelerated narratives are exposing leadership and capability gaps across organisations
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
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
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Seven takeaways from a conversation with President Barack Obama’s speechwriter
Founding Fuel
What the tiger’s journey through the wild teaches us about leadership growth
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
McKinsey’s first Indian hire. Mentor to generations. Architect of an enduring legacy
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
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
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
Leadership conversations are increasingly about what can be measured and instant results. Yet, many of the most powerful shifts in leadership show up quietly
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
18 takeaways on crisis management and trust-building
Founding Fuel
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.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Fireside chat: Ajay Piramal, Nitin Paranjpe and Dr Anil Khandelwal, in conversation with Indrajit Gupta
Founding Fuel
A Founding Fuel Live conversation between D Shivakumar and Ramesh Srinivasan, co-author, ‘The Journey of Leadership’
Founding Fuel
An excerpt from Dr Dana Sinclair’s new book, ‘Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most’
Founding Fuel
It is tempting to dismiss corporate universities as a relic of a bygone era. The reality may well be a bit more nuanced
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Many competent leaders from different domains aspire to join public life. But the transition is never an easy one
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
BCCI faces a set of crucial decisions ahead that could set the pace for the future
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
What do we need more of: leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a make-in-India mindset?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Books about a fearless industrialist, building a great culture, regret and fulfilment, building careers, world strategy, reinventing work, and becoming a strategist
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Leaders like Elon Musk defy the normative leadership framework. They have strong critics, but also build institutions. How do we decode their success?
K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre
July 26, 2022: Rethinking smartwatches; Climate change and pandemics; Getting things done
Founding Fuel
July 14, 2022: Nilekani on the future; Indian English; The Uber Files
Founding Fuel
Book review: Tata’s Leadership Experiment: The Story of the Tata Administrative Service
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
June 23, 2022: TV debates versus real politics; Indian protest rap; Thursday thoughts
Founding Fuel
June 20, 2022: Lessons from Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu; Amazon hits RESET; Rare pictures
Founding Fuel
June 17, 2022: What cricket lost; The upside of negativity; #AllSleepMatters
Founding Fuel
June 6, 2022: SoftBank’s underbelly; The worrisome legacy of Jack Welch; Procrastination explained
Founding Fuel
April 14, 2022: The rise and rise of Canva, Being digital, Design challenges
Founding Fuel
April 11, 2022: The Great Transition; The difficulty of being good; Role reversal
Founding Fuel
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?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
March 22, 2022: The rest of 2022; The outliers; The evolution of life
Founding Fuel
February 24, 2022: Debating the hijab; Academia and the media; How Putin thinks
Founding Fuel
February 11, 2022: How Forbes destroyed journalism; The Hedonic Treadmill; The proportionality principle
Founding Fuel
Companies have an ableist bias. Youth4Jobs, and the young people they’ve trained, are fighting that bias
Ipsita Bandyopadhyay & Piyul Mukherjee
January 19, 2022: Indian cricket’s Kohli era; The beginner’s mind; The pandemic paradox
Founding Fuel
We now have a wonderful opportunity to expand thoughtful deliberations on global problems, and accelerate the process of collective learning, using the internet, Zoom, and other platforms. And together find solutions that make the whole system healthy
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
December 24, 2021: Vishy Anand on keeping calm in a storm; Visit to a dark store; Holiday motivation
Founding Fuel
December 18, 2021 | FF Daily #552: FF Recommends 6 leadership lessons for all times
Founding Fuel
Insights from Indra Nooyi’s memoir ‘My Life in Full’, on leadership in a world “where authority and brilliance, to many people, still look like an older gentleman”
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
October 6, 2021: India’s imminent power crisis; Long-term thinking Vs Long-termism; Fringe benefits
Founding Fuel
October 5, 2021: Learning to live with Covid-19; Daniel Craig’s James Bond; Why art matters
Founding Fuel
September 29, 2021: How to deal with pandemic induced ‘learning loss’; Understanding resilience; Bite the Apple
Founding Fuel
Throughout his career, the spin wizard seldom pulled his punches. His aggressive brand of leadership defined the rise of the champion Ranji side—and for the first time challenged Mumbai’s dominance. An extract from the book 'The Sardar of Spin'
Founding Fuel
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Much of the conversation around AI focuses on tools and productivity. This series looks deeper: at how AI is reshaping organisational architecture—how decisions are made, how knowledge flows, and how work itself is organised.
Stories that place the Middle East’s conflicts in a wider global, historical and cultural context.
Reflective travelogues on attention, place, and inner change.
Essays and conversations on AI, institutions, and scale in India.
A curated selection on leadership under uncertainty.
Personal essays on work, learning, and the inner life.
