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How to build Agra-cities
·Economy, Policy & Society

How to build Agra-cities

While essential services are in place, people in government managing cities are in limbo. A vast majority of state employees are in ineffective mode because they are working from home and cannot access their systems remotely. It’s time to plan digital transformation in the government.

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Amrita Chowdhury

Amrita Chowdhury

Director | Gaia Smart Cities

Leadership in a crisis: How to bend without breaking
·Leadership & Organisation

Leadership in a crisis: How to bend without breaking

How can you deliver business continuity if you are churned up and anxious inside? More importantly, how can you use this crisis as a springboard to shape the future, instead of merely coping with it? A 7-day practical plan to cultivate resilience in a crisis.

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Vijay Bhat

Vijay Bhat

Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services

What employers don’t know about employee monitoring
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

What employers don’t know about employee monitoring

Monitoring people at work from home is something employers are thinking about. But what about the economic costs, technical issues, legal implications and ethical aspects?

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

How Corporate India needs to think about managing the pandemic
·Economy, Policy & Society

How Corporate India needs to think about managing the pandemic

Manish Sabharwal has been watching what’s going on in the economy, in the society, and in the government from multiple vantage points. He talks about the possible scenarios and how business—and indeed the country—will need to sequence and calibrate their response

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The Satara uprising
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

The Satara uprising

Across Maharashtra, fresh farm produce was rotting after supply chains were disrupted by the national lockdown. The local administration in one of the districts offered a window of opportunity to small farmers’ collectives to build a farm-to-home model—and dramatically turn the tide

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Anmol Shrivastava

Anmol Shrivastava

Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant

India is hurting. Why? What next?
·Economy, Policy & Society

India is hurting. Why? What next?

Local systems solutions, investments in healthcare and public institutions, cross-pollination of ideas—a panel moderated by Arun Maira discusses how to extract the economy out of the morass it is in

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What is the shape of the new economy we will build?
·Economy, Policy & Society

What is the shape of the new economy we will build?

CEOs and entrepreneurial founders are rolling up their sleeves to save their businesses and also save livelihoods so that the economy doesn't sink further. An introduction to ‘Survival Strategies’, an urgent theme Founding Fuel is exploring

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Arun Maira

Arun Maira

Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

Stories from inside India’s corporate war rooms
·Leadership & Organisation

Stories from inside India’s corporate war rooms

Even as they grapple with the operational aspects of the crisis, many business leaders are bringing a beginner’s mind and experimenting. They are discovering slivers of opportunity and preparing for a post COVID-19 world

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)

The whole family is at home. I’m bombarded with calls all day. There’s housework too. I can’t find quiet corner to hunker down and focus

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

WFH: Drinking from a fire hose
·Leadership & Organisation

WFH: Drinking from a fire hose

We’ve pitchforked into action without any process or an established way of working. As a leadership team, what can we do right now to handle this disruption and help settle things down inside our enterprise?

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

Housebound, and working hard
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Housebound, and working hard

Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well

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Founding Fuel

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Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine
·Technology & the Future

Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine

The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

An inflection point is upon us
·Economy, Policy & Society

An inflection point is upon us

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Anticipating inflection points
·Business & Strategy

Anticipating inflection points

Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’

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