·Economy, Policy & Society
Labour migration, jobs and society in the Age of the Pandemic
The lockdown is taking its toll. What will it take workers in the informal sectors and small businesses to survive?
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Lockdown notes on working, living and loving from the Far East
As the national lockdown gradually ends across China and the Far East, many professionals are starting to pick up the pieces of their lives and getting back to work. But it isn’t quite the same again.
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Economy, Policy & Society
Stories of compassion from a cauldron in Surat’s textile hub
The lives of small business owners and migrant labour have been turned completely upside down. But the crisis may have also brought the community closer
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
How to build Agra-cities
While essential services are in place, people in government managing cities are in limbo. A vast majority of state employees are in ineffective mode because they are working from home and cannot access their systems remotely. It’s time to plan digital transformation in the government.
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Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
·Leadership & Organisation
Leadership in a crisis: How to bend without breaking
How can you deliver business continuity if you are churned up and anxious inside? More importantly, how can you use this crisis as a springboard to shape the future, instead of merely coping with it? A 7-day practical plan to cultivate resilience in a crisis.
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Vijay Bhat
Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
What employers don’t know about employee monitoring
Monitoring people at work from home is something employers are thinking about. But what about the economic costs, technical issues, legal implications and ethical aspects?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
How Corporate India needs to think about managing the pandemic
Manish Sabharwal has been watching what’s going on in the economy, in the society, and in the government from multiple vantage points. He talks about the possible scenarios and how business—and indeed the country—will need to sequence and calibrate their response
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Satara uprising
Across Maharashtra, fresh farm produce was rotting after supply chains were disrupted by the national lockdown. The local administration in one of the districts offered a window of opportunity to small farmers’ collectives to build a farm-to-home model—and dramatically turn the tide
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·Economy, Policy & Society
India is hurting. Why? What next?
Local systems solutions, investments in healthcare and public institutions, cross-pollination of ideas—a panel moderated by Arun Maira discusses how to extract the economy out of the morass it is in
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·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
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
What you can do in uncertain situations
Three great books on handling uncertainty
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Leadership & Organisation
Stories from inside India’s corporate war rooms
Even as they grapple with the operational aspects of the crisis, many business leaders are bringing a beginner’s mind and experimenting. They are discovering slivers of opportunity and preparing for a post COVID-19 world
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)
The whole family is at home. I’m bombarded with calls all day. There’s housework too. I can’t find quiet corner to hunker down and focus
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
WFH: Drinking from a fire hose
We’ve pitchforked into action without any process or an established way of working. As a leadership team, what can we do right now to handle this disruption and help settle things down inside our enterprise?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Housebound, and working hard
Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well
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