March 27, 2021 | FF Daily #334: Five Founding Fuel stories that give an inkling of how the ground is shifting

• Read Time : 9 mins

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• best stories
• state capacity
• FF Recommends
• Systems Thinking
• Global Rule of Three
• Mental Health
• trendspotting
• Higher education

March 1, 2021: Walter Isaacson on passionate curiosity; Why local experience matters; France’s repairability index; How to measure our lives

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Jeff Bezos
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin
• Adam Grant
• Ada Lovelace
• Systems Thinking
• Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs
• France’s repairability index
• Curiosity
• Albert Einstein

A learning session with Arun Maira, Harish Hande, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and M Rajshekhar

• Play Time : 112 mins
• 1 Comment

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• state capacity
• Arun Maira
• M Rajshekhar
• Systems Thinking
• Systems change
• books
• Mekhala Krishnamurthy
• Harish Hande

February 2, 2021: Simple rules for complex systems; Christine Darden on working in a male dominated culture; Selfie in the age of Clubhouse

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Arun Maira
• Vishal Jindal
• Systems Thinking
• street food
• women at work
• Total Quality Movement
• Toyota
• Christine Darden

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?

• Read Time : 5 mins

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• books
• Kamala Harris
• Systems Thinking
• M. Rajshekhar
• Martin Bjergegaard
• Leadership
• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Cosmina Popa
• Shyamala Goplanan
• Aarti Shahani

Four books show why and how we must reconnect the economy and technology with humanity

• Read Time : 11 mins

• Tags
• The Tyranny of Merit
• Madhav Govindu
• informal economy
• The Universe in a Single Atom
• Empire of Cotton
• ethics in technology
• J.C. Kumurappa
• Dalai Lama
• Unemployment
• books
• Michael Sandel
• Sven Beckert
• Systems Thinking
• systematic change
• Deepak Malghan

A message for social change-makers seeking ‘impact on scale’ even as sources of funding dry up: Stay focused on the purpose (the doughnut) and not the scale and brand of your organisation (the hole). Innovate. And learn to be a catalyst

• Read Time : 8 mins

• Tags
• local solutions
• Social innovation
• transforming systems
• Systems Thinking
• Social Entrepreneurship

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

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

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

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