·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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·Technology & the Future
Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine
The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease
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Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
An inflection point is upon us
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
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·Business & Strategy
Anticipating inflection points
Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·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
Learning is tough. This is how smart leaders make the time for it
The room for learning, growth and improvement exists when you are challenged by smart peers and colleagues
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Masterclass: Shaping startup culture
‘We are customer-driven’, ‘we are data-driven’. Those are typical refrains from companies. But are they really? It all boils down to culture
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·Economy, Policy & Society
The hard questions of our times
The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Despatches from Indore: The quest for a secure job in the formal sector
This month, we participate in the lives of a few Indore residents, and get a glimpse of unspoken realities and desires, as jobs in the formal sector define their self-worth
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·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
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Why we should re-examine the clichés in our heads
They stop us from digging deeper. We fail to see the downsides. We miss interesting opportunities. The antidote is to consciously seek the opposite
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·Business & Strategy
Making space for loonshots
How to make both loonshots and franchises successful inside an organisation
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·Economy, Policy & Society
The cooker affair: A cautionary tale of using science for political ends
In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?
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Arun Mohan Sukumar
Author, lawyer, and cyber security expert
·Economy, Policy & Society
Why Indian technology projects haven’t made global impact
Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital
·Business & Strategy
The problem with ‘let’s move fast’
To maintain speed, you need to take stock of your environment every now and then
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