Year End Special
The best of 2019
Twenty stories on cautionary tales, purpose and ethical conflicts, India’s pulse points, understanding technology’s impact and potential, and preparing for change
Tag : systems-thinking
MasterClass on TransformingSystems with Arun Maira
Conversations in a noisy place
Public discourse has descended into the shallows. Where is the space left for citizens to engage in deeper deliberations about their future?
MasterClass on TransformingSystems with Arun Maira
Economies of scope: Singapore’s alternative approach to progress
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
Where do ideas come from?
Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations
Diwali cleaning for the mind
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
MasterClass on TransformingSystems with Arun Maira
Purpose-Driven Networks: Creating solutions to social problems, at scale
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
How Zuckerberg dealt with a leak
How Facebook’s top leadership is dealing with the deeper issues of declining trust, why liberal studies matter, and building purpose-driven networks
MasterClass on TransformingSystems with Arun Maira
Creating Ethical Leaders: Can ethics be taught?
Ethics can be learnt, though it may be considered difficult to teach. What matters is the kind of experiences young managers are exposed to. B-schools and firms play a crucial role in shaping their thinking through such exposures
When the solution you imitate doesn’t match ground realities
Merely copying an idea will not solve a problem. Like product innovators, policy innovators too have to keep the users and their environment in mind
MasterClass on TransformingSystems with Arun Maira
Creating Ethical Leaders: Will management education rethink its role?
Two factors are causing a rethink on value systems: environmental degradation and shifts in political power that reflect the voice of the disenfranchised. This new thinking will have to come from new coalitions of social thinkers, practitioners, academics, politicians and corporates
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