·Digital transformation
When We Stopped Taking Things Apart
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
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·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
·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
·Digital transformation
Maps, History, and Finding the Throughline
AI-driven, multi-layered maps could change how we understand power, culture, and the choices future generations will inherit
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Not the Pilot’s Fault: Inside the First 61 Seconds of AI171
A small turbine and a flicker of light tell a different story.
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
AI171: Human Error, Design Flaw, or Something Else?
The mystery lives on. But now we have facts
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Part 3: Unraveling AI 171: The Search for What Really Went Wrong
The mystery is not just about what happened—but why? And how can it be prevented in the future? The third and concluding part of a three part series
·Digital transformation
Embracing AI without losing ourselves
As the machines are advancing relentlessly, do we let AI think for us, or do we stay actively human?
·Digital transformation
AI in Academia: The Grind, the Gain, and the Great Recalibration
Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching
·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
·Digital transformation
The Age of Information
Insights from Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
When India made its first computer
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) had a pivotal role in shaping India’s computer-tech capability, as early as the 1960s. An extract from ‘Against All Odds: The IT Story of India’ by Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan
·Digital transformation
FF Insights 712: Tech & the three crises facing humanity
August 8, 2022: SuperSable, Problem with Instagram?, Gender and physics
·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
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Life and the universe
The James Webb Space Telescope and how it’s going to change our lives
·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
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Science fiction and the simulations of our future(s)
December 11, 2021 | FF Daily #546: FF Recommends 10 sci-fi novels
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Facebook’s new avatar in 10 images
Renaming Facebook as Meta indicates a big bet on the metaverse, as well as an “escape hatch” from the issues and scrutiny Facebook has been facing. The entire industry is at the beginning of a big wave and Mark Zuckerberg has been building capacity for some years now. However, the key to Meta’s success will depend on whether and how fast customers adopt it to work, learn, play, build and live.
·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?
·Digital transformation
FF Daily #319: A Jio OS?
March 10, 2021: The limits of what data can tell you; How to make the robot dance; The inevitable future
·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!
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
FF Daily #293: The future doesn’t need us
February 8, 2021: The story of Old Monk Rum; Covid-19 in the post pandemic world; Prevention is better
·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
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The Oxford vaccine & potato chips; edtech & WhiteHat Jr; Windows 1
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 25, 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
·Platforms & Data Economy
Ecommerce in festive season; China’s tech war; Investing in disruptive tech
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 21, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
·Platforms & Data Economy
Should the world be worried about Chinese tech?
China's growing tech prowess, access to Big Data, and its expanding digital footprint gives it a strategic advantage—in espionage and surveillance, in global finance, and global trade. All of which will play a decisive role in determining China’s role in international politics and business. Read part 2 of this two-part article
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The US-China war for tech supremacy is splitting the world in two
It’s important for India to understand the Sino-US ‘techonomic’ rivalry in emerging technologies like AI, 5G, and IoT, and China’s efforts to carve out a sphere of influence. So that it can tweak its own relationship with China. Read part one of this two-part essay
·Digital transformation
Google tax; An air quality solution; How to think about AI
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 1, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
·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
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
A chip in the head
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink demoed a chip-sized brain implant that could help humans do much more. Here’s why I want one
·Digital transformation
Luminar IPO & Spacs, Tatas super app, and GM mosquitoes
This Week in Disruptive Tech | August 26, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world