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The Quiet Work of Branding
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change

The Quiet Work of Branding

Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025

When A Leader Stumbles
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust

When A Leader Stumbles

How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series

After the Crash: A Test of Leadership and Legacy
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust

After the Crash: A Test of Leadership and Legacy

In the shadow of the Air India AI171 tragedy, the Tata Group faces a crucible moment—echoing a corporate crisis from four decades ago that still defines leadership under pressure

How L&T completely muffed up a valuable teachable moment
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust

How L&T completely muffed up a valuable teachable moment

Around the world, CEOs, even the smartest of the lot, are known to occasionally suffer from a foot-in-the-mouth disease. Yet there are playbooks in place on how to deal with such crises–something that L&T has chosen to ignore.

Rushing back to office
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change

Rushing back to office

There are signs of growing impatience among CEOs to abandon the hybrid work experiment and return to office permanently. What’s driving this sentiment? And could it scupper change?

Changing times, enduring lessons
·Leadership Practice and Development

Changing times, enduring lessons

December 18, 2021 | FF Daily #552: FF Recommends 6 leadership lessons for all times

FF Daily #434: Living slow
·Leadership Practice and Development

FF Daily #434: Living slow

July 27, 2021: Do women leaders fare better during a crisis?; Let’s count the grief; Feel useless?

FF Daily #284: The moral high ground
·Leadership Practice and Development

FF Daily #284: The moral high ground

January 28, 2021: Kumar Mangalam Birla on the year that was; How to apologize; Allocate time wisely

Be positive. Be kind. Be helpful.
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust

Be positive. Be kind. Be helpful.

Some reflections on leadership, thinking, what matters most now, gratitude, hope, renewal and more as I review 2020

Learning from The Best Business Books of 2020: A fireside chat
·Leadership Practice and Development

Learning from The Best Business Books of 2020: A fireside chat

In Founding Fuel’s learning session, D Shivakumar, in conversation with R Sriram, discusses what’s different about his best books selection this year. He also shares some of his superpower secrets about how he is able to nurture the discipline to read in the midst of a busy professional life

FF Daily #231: The limits of freedom
·Leadership Practice and Development

FF Daily #231: The limits of freedom

November 17, 2020: Bertrand Russell on liberty and regulation; A lesson from Barack Obama on the art of leadership; The fourth man; Fast & furious

FF Daily #228: How to deal with criticism
·Leadership Practice and Development

FF Daily #228: How to deal with criticism

November 12, 2020: Wisdom from Lee Kuan Yew; Pfizer’s new vaccine and open society; Five things businesses can do in the present crisis

‘Trust is not a matter of morality, but of predictability’
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making

‘Trust is not a matter of morality, but of predictability’

Predicting behaviour isn’t rocket science, say Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth in their book, ‘Sizing People Up’. It is a social science, and requires you to apply the right equation of logic, strategy, scepticism, observational skills, and the ability to accept unwelcome truths