·Economy, Policy & Society
Smartphones, kapda, makaan
What should we make of the humungous numbers being reported by ecommerce companies around festive sales?
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Becoming indistractable
Nir Eyal wrote the definitive book on how to design tech products that will get people hooked. His latest book ‘Indistractable’ has advice on how to avoid digital distractions and hold our own in this war for our attention. Some insights from the book
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Where do ideas come from?
Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
‘The value of technology is in solving meaningful human problems’
In this podcast Scott Hartley, bestselling author of ‘The Fuzzy and the Techie’, talks about why tech knowledge is necessary, but not sufficient for entrepreneurs. They also need a broader curiosity about the world around them
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Diwali cleaning for the mind
There is much good work, experiences and knowledge that exist in the world, ready to be tapped into and adapted to the firm’s context and prepare the firm for the future
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·Leadership & Organisation
Is imposter syndrome holding you back?
The syndrome shows its worst form when we are given a platform to operate on and we choose to occupy only a small part of it. But there’s a simple way to beat back the self-doubt that holds even accomplished people back. An excerpt from the book, ‘Lady, You’re the Boss’, by Apurva Purohit
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Apurva Purohit
President | Jagran Group
·Economy, Policy & Society
Purpose-Driven Networks: Creating solutions to social problems, at scale
Complex societal issues require diverse set of capabilities—which reside in a variety of business and civil society organisations. When they come together as a self-coordinating network, they can create collective impact
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Ravi Venkatesan
Unicef's Special Representative for Young People | Founder, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship
·Leadership & Organisation
How Zuckerberg dealt with a leak
How Facebook’s top leadership is dealing with the deeper issues of declining trust, why liberal studies matter, and building purpose-driven networks
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What they don't teach you at the IITs
Entrepreneurs need to be able to understand humans, individually and as a collective. For them, a liberal arts education is necessary. Because the scientific method teaches you inquiry. But the humanities teach you to apply that inquiry to yourself
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Tanuj Bhojwani
Fellow | iSPIRT foundation
·Economy, Policy & Society
Purpose-Driven Networks: Sustaining large-scale movements of change
Social and political movements of change need to embed “moderators” who can connect and guide the flow of the movement—people who promote a dialogue and help create a consensus on action
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Kiran Karnik
Former President, NASSCOM
·Leadership & Organisation
Creating Ethical Leaders: Can ethics be taught?
Ethics can be learnt, though it may be considered difficult to teach. What matters is the kind of experiences young managers are exposed to. B-schools and firms play a crucial role in shaping their thinking through such exposures
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R Gopalakrishnan
Author and Corporate Advisor | CEO, The Mindworks | Executive-in-Residence, SPJIMR
·Economy, Policy & Society
When the solution you imitate doesn’t match ground realities
Merely copying an idea will not solve a problem. Like product innovators, policy innovators too have to keep the users and their environment in mind
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·Leadership & Organisation
Creating Ethical Leaders: Will management education rethink its role?
Two factors are causing a rethink on value systems: environmental degradation and shifts in political power that reflect the voice of the disenfranchised. This new thinking will have to come from new coalitions of social thinkers, practitioners, academics, politicians and corporates
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Ajit Rangnekar
Director General of Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad | Telangana Government
·Economy, Policy & Society
The new China is more than just about growth
Today, the country’s focus is on exploiting the benefits of economic modernisation to redefine the goals of society in three critical areas: environmental regulation, technological innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Insights from a week-long immersion
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Walk a mile in the user’s shoes
For ground-breaking innovation, keep the user at the centre, and get a good cultural understanding of the actual place where your product will be used
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