·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The cost of winning at all costs
This Week: Scaling fast vs. having a viable economic model, Tim O’Reilly on Silicon Valley’s favourite growth strategy, and Twitter's travails
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·Technology & the Future
Will the real Twitter please stand up?
Twitter is not one, but three. It is a protocol, an app, and a media company. And being all the three is doing it no good
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N S Ramnath
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·Leadership & Organisation
What Yes Bank can learn from Cognizant and Francisco D’Souza
Leadership transitions at Yes Bank and Cognizant, is the Three Horizon model still relevant, interview with Raghuram Rajan, and an ethical dilemma for Silicon Valley’s next generation
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·Leadership & Organisation
Stepping into Rana’s den
On March 1, Ravneet Singh Gill will assume charge at YES Bank. Will the entry of the quintessential MNC banker from Deutsche Bank be able to calm the troubled waters swirling around YES Bank?
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The Fourth Estate versus Chanda Kochhar
The media’s job is not to prosecute, but step in when regulatory authorities fail. And ask questions of antiquated laws such as Angel Tax
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
No, there is nothing called Angel Tax
India needs more startups and entrepreneurs. Antiquated sections of the Income Tax Act must be reworked
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Voluntary Aadhaar, the Aadhaar amendment bill, and UPI 2
Aadhaar news roundup, complex algorithms and real-world problems, designing a decent working place, and the unpredictability of complex adaptive systems
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·Leadership & Organisation
Why the worst may not be over for Chanda Kochhar
The inside story of how Chanda Kochhar let hubris and greed implode her trail-blazing career at ICICI Bank
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Work smart, create white spaces
This Week: Busyness, investing time wisely, deep work, the world in 2019, and more
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The real world vs the idea of One Big Story
This Week: juggling contradictory principles, UDAN scheme, learnings from Michael Phelps, Airbnb vs hotel industry, the inevitability of Roger Federer and more
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The world as seen by Michael Phelps
Listening to the greatest Olympian ever offers life lessons that can be extrapolated into multiple domains
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Why UDAN is flying into headwinds
The Modi government’s ambitious scheme was a serious attempt to make air travel accessible to every Indian. But two years later, it is apparent that the challenges may have been somewhat underestimated.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
India’s Model T moment
This Week: An informed debate on policy and Aadhaar, China goes to the dark side of the moon, what motivates gig workers, and how automation is remaking service work
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·Economy, Policy & Society
‘Exclusion does not come from Aadhaar, but from its uses’
There are multiple India’s—with different levels of prosperity and access to services. And India lives simultaneously in multiple centuries. Ram Sewak Sharma, TN Ninan, Parth Shah and Shakti Sinha discuss how Aadhaar and the policy around it needs to evolve to bridge these differences
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Where may the True North lie?
Time to reflect: Anne Lamott's 12 truths, David Foster Wallace on adjusting your natural default-setting, questioning scale, and the most important questions
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