·Digital transformation
When We Stopped Taking Things Apart
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
#Science
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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