·Leadership & Organisation
Untangling messy people issues
People-related issues are complex and unpredictable. Elicit stories about them to understand patterns and design the right interventions
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
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·Leadership & Organisation
Good coaches listen deep, question hard, challenge status quo
Like in sport, in business too a coach can hold the space and engage a star player to sort out his game when going through a rough patch
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
·Leadership & Organisation
Sex, work and harassment
India Inc needs to do more to make the workplace fair, equitable and safe for women
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Aadhaar: A quiet disruption
Having registered one billion Indians, the team behind Aadhaar is now creating a digital infrastructure—the India Stack—that promises to disrupt financial services, make service delivery dramatically cheaper and efficient and boost the startup ecosystem
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Design and business: Jeanne Liedtka on how to think like a designer
Design thinking expert Jeanne Liedtka believes that everyone has the potential to be an innovator. They just need to know how.
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Business & Strategy
Three Little Data hacks that keep your costs minimal
The obvious list of things to try includes prototyping, manual collation and more convenient prioritization
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Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies
·Leadership & Organisation
Nurturing high performers: Trial by fire
In this extract from chapter 6 of his book, ‘Leveraging Human Capital’, K Ramkumar talks about how challenge, testing, competitiveness and hard confrontation are important attributes of nurturing champions
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre
·Business & Strategy
Design and business: The substance of style
No longer seen as window dressing, today design is being seen as a key source of competitive advantage in business—as well as other parts of life
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Economy, Policy & Society
Solving India’s problem of jobless growth
Jobless growth is a multi-cause, systemic problem. Tackling each cause individually will backfire. A more effective solution is to develop a synergistic policy-matrix
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Leadership & Organisation
Are you persuadable?
An ability to change decisions is not about inconsistency, it is about flexibility. Insights from Al Pittampalli’s book ‘Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Mind to Change the World’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
So you want to join a startup, eh?
What makes you think you’re cut out for one? Do you have it in you? How will you measure yourself?
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Emma Seppälä on building positive priorities
Emma Seppälä, author of ‘The Happiness Track’, on the benefits of wellbeing
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Business & Strategy
Designing a sharply positioned platform
All digital platforms have similar products or similar content. How is the consumer to distinguish between this glut of providers?
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Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
·Business & Strategy
7 lessons from the Daiichi - Ranbaxy deal, and understanding the Donald Trump phenomena
Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava draws insights on building an enduring business, the power of persuasion and countering divisive leaders
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Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
·Business & Strategy
The Chinese innovation machine
China has evolved into a leading geography for innovation. How has it done that? George Yip and Bruce McKern explore that question in their book ‘China’s Next Strategic Advantage’
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy