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As popular notions go, the sky is not always blue, one must aim for perfection, there are many bad people and leaders eat last. Seriously?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Academic research in management needs to be more useful and relevant. But any intent to influence practice won’t happen, unless researchers learn to step out of their comfort zone and engage with the real world
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
This Week: How civic tech can help Swachh Bharat, Aadhaar and digital platforms for development, and the importance of celebrating failures
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Aadhaar was designed as an enabler, a utility. That is its strength, and its weakness
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Monitoring performance and impact is key to the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission. And that’s where technology can make a big difference
Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
Much is being said about Aadhaar being a vicious project and one that tramples on Indian citizens. But is that the complete truth? It is a story about India that is being reported abysmally
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
In his new book ‘A Biography of Innovations’ R Gopalakrishnan, former Tata Sons executive director, talks about learning from mistakes and the importance of intellectual curiosity, collective ingenuity and storytelling
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
This Week: How to create a great single brand for customers and employees, creativity vs imagination, and more
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And take a one question diagnostic on how you fare in delivering them
Hari Abburi
Global HR Executive
There is no clinical evidence to prove this, but my brain fell in love with ideas and got close to that of a cocaine addict
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Kishore Biyani’s Retail 3.0 strategy, the art of selling, and why pain can be good and necessary
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How do you eat an elephant? One piece at a time. Sounds like plain common sense. If forgotten, failure is inevitable
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
A new era of shopping is taking shape in India, as retailers—like Kishore Biyani with his Retail 3.0 strategy—look to blur the lines between their physical stores and online shopping. A glimpse into how this will change the way modern retailers operate
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Through these two anecdotes from his book ‘Sell: The Art, the Science, the Witchcraft’ Subroto Bagchi illustrates how the best in the business overcome mistrust and find new doors if one is closed
Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
The art of selling, driving systemic change through open-source knowledge, bitcoins and the limits of AI
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