·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Know when to step off the accelerator
This Week: Why not to pursue every new idea, perfection vs getting stuff done, bringing business education closer to practice, and more
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·Leadership & Organisation
Why GyShiDo trumps perfection and leaders eat first
As popular notions go, the sky is not always blue, one must aim for perfection, there are many bad people and leaders eat last. Seriously?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Bridging the gap between academia and practice
Academic research in management needs to be more useful and relevant. But any intent to influence practice won’t happen, unless researchers learn to step out of their comfort zone and engage with the real world
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Models, tech platforms and the hope for a better future
This Week: How civic tech can help Swachh Bharat, Aadhaar and digital platforms for development, and the importance of celebrating failures
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·Economy, Policy & Society
When a tech idea goes into a government office
Aadhaar was designed as an enabler, a utility. That is its strength, and its weakness
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
A civic tech approach to Swachh Bharat
Monitoring performance and impact is key to the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission. And that’s where technology can make a big difference
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Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities
·Economy, Policy & Society
Aadhaar and we the people of India
Much is being said about Aadhaar being a vicious project and one that tramples on Indian citizens. But is that the complete truth? It is a story about India that is being reported abysmally
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Celebrate authentic failures
In his new book ‘A Biography of Innovations’ R Gopalakrishnan, former Tata Sons executive director, talks about learning from mistakes and the importance of intellectual curiosity, collective ingenuity and storytelling
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Being creative is hard work
This Week: How to create a great single brand for customers and employees, creativity vs imagination, and more
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·Leadership & Organisation
The power of eight employee experiences
And take a one question diagnostic on how you fare in delivering them
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Hari Abburi
Global HR Executive
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Think being an ideas junkie makes you creative? Think again
There is no clinical evidence to prove this, but my brain fell in love with ideas and got close to that of a cocaine addict
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Change: From idea to action
Kishore Biyani’s Retail 3.0 strategy, the art of selling, and why pain can be good and necessary
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The 1% rule
How do you eat an elephant? One piece at a time. Sounds like plain common sense. If forgotten, failure is inevitable
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Decoding the new rules of blended commerce
A new era of shopping is taking shape in India, as retailers—like Kishore Biyani with his Retail 3.0 strategy—look to blur the lines between their physical stores and online shopping. A glimpse into how this will change the way modern retailers operate
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
A salesperson’s talismans: Resilience, persistence and pride in the product
Through these two anecdotes from his book ‘Sell: The Art, the Science, the Witchcraft’ Subroto Bagchi illustrates how the best in the business overcome mistrust and find new doors if one is closed
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Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist