Discover the most-read stories across the Founding Fuel network over all time.
By the middle of 2015, things became dire for Odisha’s private engineering colleges. Of the state’s 46,000 engineering seats, as many as 30,000 were vacant. In this excerpt from his book ‘Despite the State’, M Rajshekhar tells the story of the boom and bust—in which the students and staff were the only losers
M. Rajshekhar
Energy reporter and author
Wikipedia and YouTube are two examples of businesses that tweaked their initial strategy and found exponential growth
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Storytelling can help tourism. For travellers seek memories not just photographs
Indranil Chakraborty
Founder, Storyworks
Leaders like Elon Musk defy the normative leadership framework. They have strong critics, but also build institutions. How do we decode their success?
K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO, Leadership Centre
Disagreements, even occasional anger, lead to better ideas and mutual trust
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August 23, 2020: How to interview; FF Recommends: 30 people to follow; Our biggest fears
Founding Fuel
The purpose of a good economy must be to improve human well-being. Redesigning economies to serve societies is urgent now as we grapple with the confusing challenges of getting more women into the workforce, providing care for increasing numbers of old people, and also creating more employment for young people
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
In the new world of digitization, if you don’t disrupt your own business, it could take a start-up with just 50 people backed by venture capital money to blow a huge hole in your business.
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How do you drive a very large-scale societal transformation? In this video, EkStep Foundation’s Sanjay Purohit and 1Bridge founder Madan Padaki talk about how Societal Platforms, or open digital co-creation networks, can drive innovation in sectors like education
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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.
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
Should I continue as a full-time consultant to the chief transformation officer in my firm? Or am I better off moving to a part-time consulting role, take on other clients, and acquire a more diverse experience?
C S Swaminathan
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Nandan Nilekani and his team presented their vision on democratising data. It won’t be an easy task
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
November 30, 2021: Vaccine vs infection; The nature of venture capital; Black Friday revealed
Founding Fuel
Shift the conversation to two things: what about the rival's business plan enabled it to raise the money? And, how is it at all relevant to you?
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The effectiveness of old-style leadership programmes is questionable. One way to reboot the training model is to take a more problem solving approach to learning
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