
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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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
Founding Fuel

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
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

Three great books on handling uncertainty
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International

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
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

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
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

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?
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional

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

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
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
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Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International

Numbers aren’t everything. People matter. Cultures matter
Founding Fuel

The room for learning, growth and improvement exists when you are challenged by smart peers and colleagues
Founding Fuel

‘We are customer-driven’, ‘we are data-driven’. Those are typical refrains from companies. But are they really? It all boils down to culture
Founding Fuel

The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?
Founding Fuel

This month, we participate in the lives of a few Indore residents, and get a glimpse of unspoken realities and desires, as jobs in the formal sector define their self-worth
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited