·Leadership & Organisation
Unleash the potential of your people
Experiences with our teams have made us rethink our corporate objectives and the gains are extraordinary.
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Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
·Leadership & Organisation
Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin: Challenge yourself, overcome yourself
CEO Zhang Ruimin transformed a bankrupt appliance manufacturer into a respectable brand, and is disrupting Haier again.
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·Business & Strategy
Haier is disrupting itself - before someone else does
By turning itself into an internet-based platform company, Haier is doing something that has no precedents anywhere in the world. Can it pull off this audacious plan?
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Technology & the Future
This Week in Disruptive Tech - Oct 15, 2015
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, robotics, cryptocurrency, wearables and future of work.
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·Leadership & Organisation
How to prepare for the right heir to take over your business
My daughter is better suited to taking over my business than my son. How do I manage the process?
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·Business & Strategy
Continuing on the 20% sales increase journey
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a super salesperson
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·Business & Strategy
Honey I shrunk your bank branch
Banks are sitting on a powder keg. Their business models are likely to be blown to bits if they choose to wait out for the digital disruption to gather steam.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
Volkswagen: The Difficulty of Being Good and the Ease of Being a Cheat
What the Volkswagen saga is telling us is this: We may get away with cheating for some time because of our good reputation. But we will get caught and the repercussions can be terrible
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Baba Prasad
President and CEO, Vivékin Group
·Technology & the Future
This Week in Disruptive Tech - Oct 7, 2015
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: 3D Printers, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Cars, Cyber Security and Internet of Things.
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·Leadership & Organisation
How to be an objective leader
Seeing things as they are, without letting our biases distort things, is key to taking the right actions, says Elizabeth Thornton in her book, 'The Objective Leader'
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·Leadership & Organisation
Alternatives to the annual performance review
Companies are abandoning the age-old tradition of the annual performance review. What can possibly replace it?
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The narrow exit road for India's billion-dollar start-ups
For e-commerce poster boys Flipkart and Snapdeal, their valuations sound unsustainable; IPO looks neither feasible nor sensible; and the Chinese may be the only ones with money and intent to invest further
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
The moral imperatives to a lie
Contemporary wisdom has it that any lie is offensive. But is it? As Krishna argues so lucidly in the Mahabharata, reasons exist to lie
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Frustrated freedoms: When aspirations collide with realities
There's increasing tension within Indian society and a growing sense of unfairness. Those with resources - capital, education or political connections - become very wealthy, while others wait for 'ache din'
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Business & Strategy
Haier's quest for the perfect egg
White goods maker Haier is trying out ideas from manufacturing and internet technologies to egg production. Result: Efficiency at China's egg farms has improved tremendously
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