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Get your people to unleash their own potential
·Leadership & Organisation

Get your people to unleash their own potential

The onus of motivation is on the individual, says Susan Fowler in her book 'Why Motivating People Doesn't Work'. It also tells leaders what they can do, but not control, to motivate people

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

Firing the Annual Performance Review
·Leadership & Organisation

Firing the Annual Performance Review

Why the annual performance review is finally getting the pink slip. The first of a two-part article

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CKGSB  Knowledge

CKGSB Knowledge

Knowledge Partner

Your Start-up Is Dying
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Your Start-up Is Dying

Because you fail to focus on converting visitors to heavy users

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort

Every industry thinks it is unique and has little to learn from someone else. Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven’s book, 'Not Invented Here: Cross-Industry Innovation', shows how you can learn from other industries

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

There's no such thing as work-life balance
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

There's no such thing as work-life balance

People work all their lives to find peace in their golden years. The more hopeful try to find a balance as they work. Both ideas are flawed

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Every battle is fought in the head
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Every battle is fought in the head

What if you were asked to run 333 kilometers? Most people would baulk. But not these elite athletes who do it in the harshest of conditions against everything man and nature throws at them. What they have to say can teach us a thing or two about life

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Getting The Funding Piece Right
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Getting The Funding Piece Right

Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

20 things to think of for angel investors
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

20 things to think of for angel investors

Pointers from a veteran who has been investing from the early days of the internet in India. As he says, "Made it on some, and failed on many."

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Life lessons on winning from losing
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Life lessons on winning from losing

The sixth edition of La Ultra, the cruellest run on Planet Earth, concluded recently. The race director shares lessons he learnt from the various participants on high performance

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Dr. Rajat Chauhan

Dr. Rajat Chauhan

Founder | Back2Fitness

China steps towards intelligent manufacturing
·Technology & the Future

China steps towards intelligent manufacturing

China is committing itself to automation. If all goes as per plan, soon robots and automation will be the norm in Chinese factories

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Neelima Mahajan

Neelima Mahajan

Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger

The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?

The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of 'Rise of the Robots', explains the implications for human beings and the market-driven capitalist system.

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CKGSB  Knowledge

CKGSB Knowledge

Knowledge Partner

It's time to destroy your business
·Business & Strategy

It's time to destroy your business

Question and overthrow fondly held assumptions if you are to build an enterprise for the future

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Harsh Mariwala

Harsh Mariwala

Chairman | Marico