·Business & Strategy
Has Samsung Electronics been fired?
Recalling 2.5 million handsets is the best decision a leader can make argues an outlier. Consensus and evidence says it is the worst
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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·Business & Strategy
Why we might be reading the data wrong
Among other things, the problem might lie with our inadequate understanding of the domain we are trying to map through data
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Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
·Economy, Policy & Society
How Design Thinking can help the Swachh Bharat Mission
The mission will succeed—or fail—because of people. And to get people involved, we need to reframe the problem and identify ways for each set of stakeholders to contribute
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Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
·Economy, Policy & Society
Will India’s tryst with online courses pay off?
The opportunity to transform higher education is enormous. Yet much will depend on whether faculty in our places of higher learning are able to handle the transition to this brave, new world
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Paper Boat: Riding on a wave of nostalgia
In this video, Neeraj Kakkar, co-founder of the Paper Boat brand and Shripad Nadkarni, an investor in the brand, talk about the magic formula that got people hooked and which helped them create a new beverages segment—ethnic drinks
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Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
·Business & Strategy
Design and business: Creative clusters
Under what circumstances does a creative cluster strategy work to spur innovation?
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·Leadership & Organisation
Managing change, a story at a time
Using stories to align employees to new strategies
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Life lessons from Kris Gopalakrishnan
The co-founder of Infosys Technologies and founder of Axilor Ventures opens up in an intensely personal conversation on the various stages of life
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How India’s digital economy can rediscover its mojo
The recent crisis of confidence brought by the unicorn meltdowns isn't for real. India’s digital economy is actually poised for a bright future. Just that we need a new lens to look at the real opportunities
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
Why leaders need to ask, not tell
Leaders need to learn how to engage everyone, especially young minds, in co-creating the future. The failure to do so can lead to widespread disillusionment and widen the generational gap
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Building the data process: Three thumb rules in data design
Rely more on business users and crude prototypes, and less on unidimensional metrics
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Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
·Technology & the Future
This week in disruptive tech—August 19, 2016
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Can technology tackle trolls and disinformation, Pepper the “emotional” robot, personalised learning through AltSchool, and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Design and business: The future of design thinking
Some critics have declared that design thinking is dead. They fail to see the value of the holistic view it propagates
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What is Indian about the Indian entrepreneur?
Endless growth, the goal of a Western template of business, is not sustainable. A characteristically Indian model would be to make profit while being mindful of the impact of business on society
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Baba Prasad
President and CEO | Vivékin Group
·Leadership & Organisation
A new lens on leadership
Your leadership calls, and how you interpret opportunities and threats, are influenced by your lenses, which are unique and personal to you
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre