·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Lessons on pitching from 'Shark Tank'
How to make your pitch credible, viable and persuasive enough for someone to believe in you and want to put their money on your idea
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Gig Economy
From the ingenious and the enterprising to the borderline weird, people are clambering on to platforms like Fiverr to live a life of their choosing
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
6 life lessons I learnt from the racing track
On track or in organizations, competition is the essential friction that brings forth progress and performance
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Sanjay Handu
Corporate Consultant
·Leadership & Organisation
What leaders can do to become effective coaches for their teams
Business leaders are also expected to be effective coaches. Here's what they can learn from executive and life coach Keith Nelson's book, Your Total Coach
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·Business & Strategy
Baidu Waimai is finding its way into customers' hearts through their stomachs
Food delivery services like Baidu Waimai have found an opportunity in helping people try out new restaurants and restaurants expand their customer base
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·Business & Strategy
Disrupt or destroy your own business to make it stronger
With this strategy, Amazon came up with Kindle and Netflix moved to streaming films and TV shows online
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·Leadership & Organisation
Why you need to have a chief innovation officer
How Tata group's R. Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant's Sukumar Rajagopal, Titan's LR Natarajan and BMC Software's Suhas Kelkar built an ecosystem for innovation
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Leadership & Organisation
Why Reliance is struggling to launch its 4G service
Reliance's famed project management skills are being severely tested as its strains every sinew to roll out its mammoth broadband wireless network. At its core, questions are being raised about its centralised organisational model for managing its new ventures
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What you can learn about high-tech innovation from Polaroid
The ability to frame a problem, a relentless striving for a better solution, and careful patenting are some of the lessons
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Business & Strategy
How giving your business a new twist can unlock growth
Wikipedia and YouTube are two examples of businesses that tweaked their initial strategy and found exponential growth
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What start-ups ought to do now
The most successful companies in recent times are those that have incorporated Design Thinking into their DNA
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The difference between taking a risk and risky behaviour
Taking a bet opens up opportunities, but first ask yourself -what can I bet on, without betting the company?
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·Leadership & Organisation
Why don't strategies stick?
Narratives are much more memorable than bullet points on a PowerPoint slide when trying to make your teams understand your strategy
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Doctoral dissertations from a tea stall
Cheap labour and algorithms make everything you want done possible. But it's not going to take you any place significant. Unless you’ve got chutzpah like KV Kamath or Arun Maira
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
How to get customers to own your brand
Companies as diverse as Airbnb and PepsiCo India are involving proactive consumers to gain competitive advantage
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