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Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
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When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist, Growth architect and business leader
How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang
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Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory, Product & AI Strategy Advisor
John Kay—one of the world’s leading thinkers on economics, corporate purpose, and capitalism—explores why individualism remains so deeply entrenched, even as it fuels inequality, populism, and institutional decay. Part 1 of a two-part conversation
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The real job of management is managing the not always compatible expectations of stakeholders, says John Kay. The organizations that have been successful in the long run are the ones that managed these balances. Part 2 of a two-part conversation
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Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
Inspired by Brisbane’s “Vibrantly Vacant” windows—on how renewal begins in life’s pauses
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
The government is not as a machine to fix, but a living system to serve: a conversation with Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur, author, and public servant
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Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
India’s youngest workers live at the intersection of abundance and anxiety, ambition and restraint. To engage with them, leaders must learn to work with paradox, not against it
Abhijoy Gandhi
CEO, Glue Inc
In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Britain and India survive budget battles. The US turns them into a national pastime
Sachin Garg
Independent Public Policy Consultant
