July 8: How should students think about the year ahead; decision making in the real world; follow your heart

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• Gerd Gigerenzer
• Systems Thinking
• Higher education
• Meeta Sengupta
• Vas Narasimhan
• Decision making
• Work From Home
• Harvard
• Arun Maira
• Paul Graham

July 1: Don’t stop with rules, be passionate, think big

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• D Shivakumar
• books
• Systems Thinking
• publishing
• Rajesh Srivastava
• Priya Doraswamy
• The New Rules of Business
• Fritjof Capra

Local systems solutions, investments in healthcare and public institutions, cross-pollination of ideas—a panel moderated by Arun Maira discusses how to extract the economy out of the morass it is in

• Play Time : 91 mins

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• COVID-19
• economic slowdown
• Systems Thinking
• Public education
• business revival
• Economic inequality
• local solutions
• Public Healthcare

Twenty stories on cautionary tales, purpose and ethical conflicts, India’s pulse points, understanding technology’s impact and potential, and preparing for change

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• Simon Taufel
• Nir Eyal
• TikTok
• Technology displacing jobs
• Corporate governance
• Artificial Intelligence
• McKinsey
• Michael Phelps
• communicative agility
• Platforms
• Systems Thinking
• radical nationalism
• Chanda Kochhar
• Rajat Gupta
• Leadership development
• Zomato Gold

Public discourse has descended into the shallows. Where is the space left for citizens to engage in deeper deliberations about their future?

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• large-scale transformation
• books
• Systems Thinking
• Think Long Committee for California
• the China story
• public discourse
• Deep listening

In the relatively short time since it became independent in 1965, Singapore has made giant strides. The country illustrates well the power of local systems solutions, purpose-driven networks, and inducing all parts of the government and all stakeholders to work together

• Read Time : 8 mins

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• large-scale transformation
• Systems Thinking
• Urban Planning
• purpose-driven networks
• Deep listening
• local solutions

Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations

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• innovation
• liberal studies
• Systems Thinking
• multi-disciplinary thinking
• continuous learning

There is much good work, experiences and knowledge that exist in the world, ready to be tapped into and adapted to the firm’s context and prepare the firm for the future

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• Systems Thinking
• Learning Culture
• continuous learning

Complex societal issues require diverse set of capabilities—which reside in a variety of business and civil society organisations. When they come together as a self-coordinating network, they can create collective impact

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• purpose-driven networks
• Systems Thinking
• collective impact
• societal platforms

How Facebook’s top leadership is dealing with the deeper issues of declining trust, why liberal studies matter, and building purpose-driven networks

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• Systems Thinking
• purpose-driven networks
• Mark Zuckerberg
• liberal studies
• Facebook
• liberal arts