Outrage is a leitmotif of our social media conversations. And it is starting to reach a tipping point

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• Advertising
• Media
• Social Media
• Journalism
• Deep listening
• Brand communication

Why the Red Label Kumbh Mela ad backfired and the do’s and don’ts for brand custodians when designing their communication

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• Surf Excel
• Advertising and marketing
• Brooke Bond Red Label tea
• Brand communication
• Hindustan Unilever

March 5, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Facebook, 5G, and Raghuram Rajan’s ‘The Third Pillar’

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• 5G
• Privacy
• book
• Facebook
• data protection
• Raghuram Rajan
• The Third Pillar

This Week: Managing change at scale, the power of digital disorder, thinking methods that foster innovation, better meetings, turning ideas into reality, and autonomous vehicles and car insurance

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• Creativity
• better meetings
• Autonomous vehicles
• Car insurance
• Disruptive technologies
• disruptive innovation

In their book, ‘Character Carved in Stone’, Pat Williams and Jim Denney talk about the values the United States Military Academy at West Point cultivates to make strong leaders

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• Book
• Leadership

Feb 26, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Microsoft employees question how their work is used, why lab-grown meat may not be a panacea, and China's CRISPR twins may end up with unintended modifications

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• Crispr baby
• Microsoft employee protests
• cultured meat
• tech employee activism
• lab meat

Finding fulfilment at work, alternatives to GDP, McKinsey’s conflict of interest, choosing the right team mix for Mars, and disruptive technologies

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• consulting firms
• Disruptive technologies
• future of work
• teams
• business ethics
• GDP
• McKinsey
• measuring success

The case is symptomatic of a wider issue: in the race to generate wealth for their partners, are management consulting firms in danger of losing sight of their original purpose—to be trusted advisors to CEOs?

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• business ethics
• consulting firms
• McKinsey
• Paul Polman

Feb 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, ethics in tech

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• Moral Machine
• American AI Initiative
• ethics in technology
• Artificial Intelligence
• augmented reality
• Aadhaar
• UPI
• Kevin Kelly
• societal platforms

This Week: Scaling fast vs. having a viable economic model, Tim O’Reilly on Silicon Valley’s favourite growth strategy, and Twitter's travails

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• Lean Startup
• Tim O’Reilly
• Kris Gopalakrishnan
• Twitter
• Amazon
• Blitzscaling
• Best Buy