·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
What start-ups ought to do now
The most successful companies in recent times are those that have incorporated Design Thinking into their DNA
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
When Nike just did it
Quick takes from the book ‘Shoe Dog’, Phil Knight’s account of creating Nike
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·Business & Strategy
Will Nikkei fuel FT's Asian ambitions?
Post the sale, there's every chance that the global business daily will expand its presence in Asia. Its market entry in India could depend on whether its new Japanese owner presses the right diplomatic buttons.
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·Leadership & Organisation
Opinion is free. But is it trustworthy?
That those in the media are toast is now part of popular opinion. But the fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The business elite’s moment of reckoning
Our business elite need to actively engage in a wider conversation about a new India. Instead of merely obsessing about GDP growth, business leaders need to speak out openly about our lopsided economic model
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Invest in getting better at having good conversations
Listening well, staying open and exploring an idea in conversation, brings tremendous learning and real growth
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·Economy, Policy & Society
How Uganda fixed leakages with transparency, and why it matters to India
India’s subsidy system needs reform, but the lack of information from the ground undermines the state’s ability to design right policies. Aadhaar promises that information and transparency
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
‘The power of coaching is to offer a different perspective’
Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle share what they learnt from their mentor, legendary coach Bill Campbell, in their book ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Two questions that led to an innovative device to prevent blindness
Who is my product for? What is my real goal? A relentless focus on these two questions allowed Forus Health to develop a low-cost, sturdy device to detect preventable blindness. This extract from Soum Paul’s book ‘Flight of the Unicorns’ tells the founders’ story
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Soum Paul
Entrepreneur, Film-maker and writer
·Economy, Policy & Society
A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
Climate change and growing urbanisation is slowly but surely changing a way of life in Himachal Pradesh. A tale of two ordinary villages and one town that are not on the tourist map
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Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
How to be a High-Impact Leader
These simple behavioural changes can help you become a leader
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·Technology & the Future
Product, pricing and philosophy
February 17, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology. In this issue: Swiggy’s partnerships, Tesla’s pricing and Silicon Valley’s fascination with Yuval Harari
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Design and business: Creative clusters
Under what circumstances does a creative cluster strategy work to spur innovation?
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·Technology & the Future
A chip in the head
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink demoed a chip-sized brain implant that could help humans do much more. Here’s why I want one
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Bosses need to be coaches in the new workplace
Insights from Jim Clifton and Jim Harter’s book ‘It’s the Manager’. The book is based on the largest global study by Gallup on the future of work
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