·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
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·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Anatomy of a Prompt
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
When Stories Move Faster Than Systems
Why AI-accelerated narratives are exposing leadership and capability gaps across organisations
·Leadership Practice and Development
The One Leadership Skill We Forgot to Teach
In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline
·AI Ethics & Governance
Are LLMs Just Clever Parrots?
Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
·Leadership Practice and Development
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: How to Escape the Halfpinion Trap
In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Rage of Parents
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
The Real Shifts Happening with AI
Notes from 'Reshuffle: Who Wins when AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy’, Sangeet Paul Choudary's new book
·AI Ethics & Governance
When AI Cheats Its Creators
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Our extended minds and AI notetakers
Transcription tools enhance our intelligence, allow us to revisit conversations and glean insights we might have missed, and share knowledge with extended teams. Here's what you need to know to select the right one for you
·The New AI Enterprise Architecture
Beyond AI: A new dawn
Most AI today works within the boundaries set by human designers. New tools like Google's AutoML-Zero challenge that boundary
·AI at Work
AMA: How to make AI work for you?
Tanuj Bhojwani and Anmol Shrivastava answer questions on how to make AI a part of your lives
·AI Ethics & Governance
At the top and bottom of the AI debate
Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI natives are here. Are you keeping up?
Are you adapting, exploring, or waiting for change to push you forward?
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
AI’s Best-Kept Secret: It’s Not the Tools, It’s You
In a world brimming with AI possibilities, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. But the magic is not in the perfect tools, it’s in using them thoughtfully. Whether you’re a beginner or already well-versed, the key is to start simple and experiment boldly. Like learning to ride a bike, the more you engage, the more natural it will feel. Here’s how I am learning
·Leadership Practice and Development
Practice making mistakes
An extract from ‘The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out’ by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Life: Best leadership books—7 essential reads
On the myths of leadership and developing a questioning mind on the norms that are handed down to us
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making
FF Insights #675: Mimetic desire
June 17, 2022: What cricket lost; The upside of negativity; #AllSleepMatters
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #651: Three levels of empathy
May 16, 2022: Indian VCs’ IIT bias; Rajapaksas’ manœuvres; Heatwave - an infographic
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #645: Elon Musk and the art of asking the right questions
May 6, 2022: Life in Shanghai; The journey of reusable plastic; A literal mess
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #587: It’s okay not to be okay
February 10, 2022: The rise of the creator economy; Becoming a better leader; A self-help book for introverts
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Insights #583: Convictions
February 4, 2022: Where is the Indian media?; Coffee and climate change; Catastrophe
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
FF Daily #514: When humans and AI work together
November 3, 2021: Solving climate crisis needs new tools; The cult of haters; Truth tellers
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
The human intelligence behind intelligent machines
A conversation with Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, director of ISI, about discovering patterns, learning from data, collaboration across disciplines, and how to get girls to take the STEM path (it starts at the primary education level, she says)
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #487: The risk-taking funnel
September 29, 2021: How to deal with pandemic induced ‘learning loss’; Understanding resilience; Bite the Apple
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #477: The pool of shared meaning
September 17, 2021: What’s with Infy and the I-T portal; A consultant’s job; Pressure
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #454: The importance of intuition
August 20, 2021: Vaccine politics; How managers can help introverted colleagues speak up; You are what you are
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Recommends: Learnings from sports
August 7, 2021 | FF Daily #444: Sports puts human beings in tough situations, and millions watch how they respond. There is much to learn
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #442: How an ability to listen saved the Apollo 13 crew
August 5, 2021: How to build a global company out of India; The glass ceiling cracks; A sliding door problem
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
FF Daily #406: Organizational habits
June 24, 2021: Charles Duhigg on the power of habit; Why the problem with remote work is not remote work; What midlife crisis?; Do you keep too many tabs open in your browser?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #398: Why leaders need an ethical lens
June 15, 2021: Ram Charan on why operating within the boundaries of law is necessary, but not sufficient; What Vishy Anand really means; Twitter: India & Nigeria; [Song] It’s Okay
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Building resilience: from fear to growth
May 1, 2021 | FF Daily #362: FF Recommends
·Leadership Practice and Development
Reframing VUCA: What will it take for leaders to thrive in the next decade?
Futurist Bob Johansen talks about key principles from his new book ‘Full Spectrum Thinking’—which is the ability to make sense out of the future, across gradients of possibility, and take actions now to be a part of those possibilities
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #327: Familiarity breeds comfort
March 19, 2021: How to learn bottom up; What after being vaccinated?; What are friends for?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #311: What’s common to Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs & Albert Einstein
March 1, 2021: Walter Isaacson on passionate curiosity; Why local experience matters; France’s repairability index; How to measure our lives
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #307: The inner sense of captaincy
February 24, 2021: Facebook vs. Australian regulatory authorities; Lessons from a burnout; Keep it simple, stupid!
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #279: Underneath fear and uncertainty, there’s a new perspective
January 21, 2021: Examine and deal with fears; The connection between Odisha’s education boom and mining; Kamala Harris and the rise of the alpha desi female; Late to work?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #277: Multipliers vs Diminishers
January 19, 2021: Liz Wiseman on leadership; Jack Ma vs the Chinese state; How Moderna’s vaccine was 33 years in the making; Who runs the government?
·Leadership Practice and Development
FF Daily #273: The value of doubt
January 14, 2021: Richard Feynman on leaving room for doubt; How Mumbai Traffic Police became a brand; How to thrive in a vuca world; Privacy vs People
·Leadership Practice and Development
The 10 best business and leadership books of 2020
An inside look at US presidency, leadership, changing trends, and life after the pandemic
·AI Infrastructure & Capabilities
AlphaFold; Bitcoins; and the Chinese lunar mission
This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
·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
·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
·AI Infrastructure & Capabilities
WFH Daily #149: From good to great in the age of AI
August 19, 2020: Gary Kasparov on AI; Shravan Bhat on financial freedom; Santosh & Pallavi Desai on starting up
·Leadership Practice and Development
WFH Daily #137: The price of hubris
August 07, 2020: Why CEOs overpay for acquisitions; new world, new rules; WFH boundaries
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
New world, new rules and new mindsets
A panel discussion with Gaia Smart Cities’ Sumit Chowdhury and True North’s Haresh Chawla on the next gen’s abundance mindset, how digital businesses have changed the rules, and how to stay relevant
·AI Ethics & Governance
Why we are fascinated—and scared—by AI
This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 22, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Lessons in crisis leadership from four stories of survival
These leaders defied life-and-death crises. Their stories offer a beacon for business leaders on how to steer their teams out of this pandemic-induced crisis
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
Leadership in a crisis: How to bend without breaking
How can you deliver business continuity if you are churned up and anxious inside? More importantly, how can you use this crisis as a springboard to shape the future, instead of merely coping with it? A 7-day practical plan to cultivate resilience in a crisis.