Who Owns the Fire?
A leader can light the spark. The harder question is what happens to the fire afterwards?
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Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
Leadership And Organisation
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The Battle Cry in the Boardroom
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
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·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
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Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
·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
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·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
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·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
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Founding Fuel
·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
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Founding Fuel
·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’
FF
Founding Fuel
·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
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·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
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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