Letter from the Silicon Valley
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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Ask Bagchi
The difference between taking a risk and risky behaviour
Taking a bet opens up opportunities, but first ask yourself -what can I bet on, without betting the company?
Stories At Work
Why don't strategies stick?
Narratives are much more memorable than bullet points on a PowerPoint slide when trying to make your teams understand your strategy
Doctoral dissertations from a tea stall
Cheap labour and algorithms make everything you want done possible. But it's not going to take you any place significant. Unless you’ve got chutzpah like KV Kamath or Arun Maira
New Rules of Business
How to get customers to own your brand
Companies as diverse as Airbnb and PepsiCo India are involving proactive consumers to gain competitive advantage
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Is Old the New Useless?
What leads to the belief that twenty-first century companies cannot be created by people over 30? Or 40? Or even 50?
Dispatches from China
How Beijing Genomics Institute became the world’s largest gene sequencer
BGI's secret sauce: an endless curiosity, a unique low-cost platform and a willingness to take on ambitious projects
Cautionary Tales
How not to spend your capital
Scarce capital forces you to think harder about your problems, including potential ones.
The Gist
Successful leaders are humble, accountable, and encourage participation
Korn Ferry International CEO Gary Burnison talks about the traits that successful leaders share in his book - Lead
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Why we are so bad at behavioural change and how to get better at it
Insights on how to change behaviour from Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter's book Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last
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