The silence of the lambs
The Tata-Mistry fight isn’t just about washing dirty linen in public. It is a wake-up call for Indian enterprises to start the cleansing process from within
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Shanghai Disney’s Chinese track and fighting obesity with taxes
Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava analyses some of the recent news: Shanghai Disney’s glocal strategy and its clash with local rival Wanda City, and whether a tax on junk food is enough to fight obesity
This week in disruptive tech—October 3, 2016
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: A new partnership to make Artificial Intelligence beneficial to people; autonomous vehicles and online education; Elon Musk’s plan to colonise Mars
Why we might be reading the data wrong
Among other things, the problem might lie with our inadequate understanding of the domain we are trying to map through data
Will India’s tryst with online courses pay off?
The opportunity to transform higher education is enormous. Yet much will depend on whether faculty in our places of higher learning are able to handle the transition to this brave, new world
Managing change, a story at a time
Using stories to align employees to new strategies
Why leaders need to ask, not tell
Leaders need to learn how to engage everyone, especially young minds, in co-creating the future. The failure to do so can lead to widespread disillusionment and widen the generational gap
Building the data process: Three thumb rules in data design
Rely more on business users and crude prototypes, and less on unidimensional metrics
This week in disruptive tech—August 19, 2016
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Can technology tackle trolls and disinformation, Pepper the “emotional” robot, personalised learning through AltSchool, and more
The business elite’s moment of reckoning
Our business elite need to actively engage in a wider conversation about a new India. Instead of merely obsessing about GDP growth, business leaders need to speak out openly about our lopsided economic model