·Leadership & Organisation
Special Edition: Taking stock of Jack Welch’s true legacy
Numbers aren’t everything. People matter. Cultures matter
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·Leadership & Organisation
Sam Pitroda: The big dreamer
How Pitroda created a modern digital telecom network, backed by publicly-funded R&D
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB, Professor of Strategy
·Leadership & Organisation
And what about the business of tolerance?
A fair workplace and good corporate governance depend on how tolerant business leaders are to criticism and dissent
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO, Leadership Centre
·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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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
‘At heart, all founders are hackers’
In her book ‘Who Me, Poor?’ Gayatri Jayaraman explores the aspirations and compulsions that fuel a culture of consumption and debt among India’s millennials. This extract examines the startup ethos in that context—an ethos that is about not paying attention to what went before
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Gayatri Jayaraman
Editor and writer
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The imperatives of a family office
Just as a strategic plan provides a compass for an operating business, it is necessary to have one for personal assets
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Harsh Mariwala
Chairman, Marico
·Business & Strategy
The moral crisis at Facebook
Is it because of its business model, its culture, or something deeper?
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Growth forces you to take risks that are not always sensible
Ecosystems have consumers with problems, authorities seeking to facilitate resolutions, and entrepreneurs who see growth in attempting to resolve it. An interview with Anand Deshpande and Amit Ranjan
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Aadhaar and the Arnab Monologues
Pointers to contemporary politics, different kinds of critics, media narratives and why writing is a bad idea from a literature festival
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Less-than-rational actors: An interview with Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, grandfather of behavioural economics, talks about how the field came to be and the impact it has had
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Knowledge Partner
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Big Indian shopping cart
Watch a special Facebook Live conversation with Info-Edge’s Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Amazon India’s Amit Agarwal, and True North’s Haresh Chawla on the future of technology-enabled commerce in India
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·Leadership & Organisation
Everybody Has a Slice of Genius
Linda Hill, author of Collective Genius, believes leaders should create a context in which people are willing and able to innovate.
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CKGSB Knowledge
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·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
·Leadership & Organisation
Rushing back to office
There are signs of growing impatience among CEOs to abandon the hybrid work experiment and return to office permanently. What’s driving this sentiment? And could it scupper change?
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
What is the shape of the new economy we will build?
CEOs and entrepreneurial founders are rolling up their sleeves to save their businesses and also save livelihoods so that the economy doesn't sink further. An introduction to ‘Survival Strategies’, an urgent theme Founding Fuel is exploring
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission