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·Economy, Policy & Society
Into the mind of the Indian politician
Corruption is a clichéd narrative to woo voters. What alternative narrative can politicians sell to the world’s largest democracy?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Giving birth to a new European steel behemoth
The logic behind the partnership between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp to give shape to a sustainable steel business in Europe is compelling. But the labour pains involved are likely to be equally challenging
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
The lost leadership skill of listening
Why strong leaders listen, why AI may not be all that threatening, and why trust will beat empty opinions
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·Leadership & Organisation
Leadership and the power of listening
In this podcast, Arun Maira dwells on how listening without judgement can help leaders understand the big picture and improve the quality of their decisions
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·Artificial Intelligence
AlphaGo versus Kasparov, Puchu and Champu
That artificial intelligence is here to stay seems a given. But Garry Kasparov and I believe we aren’t going any place. My little girls need us
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Opinion is free. But is it trustworthy?
That those in the media are toast is now part of popular opinion. But the fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Taming the tech beast
Why we need dialogue and deliberation to regulate technology, the trouble with TED talks, and how Richard Thaler’s nudge principles can be used for good and bad
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Will technology destroy democracy?
Job destruction, fake news, polarisation. Rapid advances in technology are blamed for these. Is that claim justified? Are other factors at play? Who will regulate technology?
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Performance monkeys on the TED stage
What started out as an intellectually stimulating event has degenerated into a series of shallow performances
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Nudge versus Richard Thaler
It looks inevitable technology companies will outrun the theories of the Nobel Prize winner in Economics. And that is a frightening thought
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Who we are is shaped by the questions we ask
This Week: How do you work with adaptive systems, why a tech mindset is not enough, and how do you measure achievement
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·Economy, Policy & Society
How may Einstein have thought of God and Aadhaar?
Does God exist? Is eating meat ethical? What about systems like Aadhaar? What about questions like these? A century after Einstein thought a hypothesis to explain the nature of space and time, it stands proven, and has been awarded the Nobel Prize. How may he take these questions on?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Building tech as if people mattered
Book review: In his new book ‘Hit Refresh’, Satya Nadella talks about operating with empathy and technology as a force for social good
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
An emergent India story
This Week: Amazon’s omni-channel push into Indian retail, an interview with Daniel Kahneman, urban youth and the India story, and reframing the Aadhaar debate
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