·Leadership & Organisation
Alternatives to the annual performance review
Companies are abandoning the age-old tradition of the annual performance review. What can possibly replace it?
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The narrow exit road for India's billion-dollar start-ups
For e-commerce poster boys Flipkart and Snapdeal, their valuations sound unsustainable; IPO looks neither feasible nor sensible; and the Chinese may be the only ones with money and intent to invest further
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
The moral imperatives to a lie
Contemporary wisdom has it that any lie is offensive. But is it? As Krishna argues so lucidly in the Mahabharata, reasons exist to lie
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Frustrated freedoms: When aspirations collide with realities
There's increasing tension within Indian society and a growing sense of unfairness. Those with resources - capital, education or political connections - become very wealthy, while others wait for 'ache din'
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Business & Strategy
Haier's quest for the perfect egg
White goods maker Haier is trying out ideas from manufacturing and internet technologies to egg production. Result: Efficiency at China's egg farms has improved tremendously
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Neelima Mahajan
Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
How To Be Your Best
In his book 'Are You Fully Charged?' Tom Rath says, pursue meaningfulness, not money to find joy in work and life
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
These are the best days of my life
Indulge. Find purpose and your True North. Become an entrepreneur. And fall in love with life all over again
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Get your people to unleash their own potential
The onus of motivation is on the individual, says Susan Fowler in her book 'Why Motivating People Doesn't Work'. It also tells leaders what they can do, but not control, to motivate people
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Leadership & Organisation
Firing the Annual Performance Review
Why the annual performance review is finally getting the pink slip. The first of a two-part article
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·Leadership & Organisation
How to retain high achievers and keep them well-grounded
What to do when you have a high achiever who is raring to go, but is not ready for the big stuff yet
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Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Your Start-up Is Dying
Because you fail to focus on converting visitors to heavy users
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort
Every industry thinks it is unique and has little to learn from someone else. Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven’s book, 'Not Invented Here: Cross-Industry Innovation', shows how you can learn from other industries
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
There's no such thing as work-life balance
People work all their lives to find peace in their golden years. The more hopeful try to find a balance as they work. Both ideas are flawed
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Interested in a 20% increase in sales?
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Every battle is fought in the head
What if you were asked to run 333 kilometers? Most people would baulk. But not these elite athletes who do it in the harshest of conditions against everything man and nature throws at them. What they have to say can teach us a thing or two about life
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