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Founding Fuel
Founding Fuel aims to create the new playbook of entrepreneurship. Think of us as a hub for entrepreneurs- the go-to place for ideas, insights, practices and wisdom essential to build the enterprise of tomorrow. It is co-founded by veteran journalists Indrajit Gupta and Charles Assisi, along with CS Swaminathan, the former president of Pearson's online learning venture.
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Courage, change, and new skills
This Week: Managing change at scale, the power of digital disorder, thinking methods that foster innovation, better meetings, turning ideas into reality, and autonomous vehicles and car insurance
What’s your reason to get to work every day?
Finding fulfilment at work, alternatives to GDP, McKinsey’s conflict of interest, choosing the right team mix for Mars, and disruptive technologies
The digital identity trend, Aadhaar leaks, and privacy by tech limitations
In this issue: Aadhaar news roundup, tenchnology and state power in China, humanity and machine learning, the unintended consequences when designing incentives
The cost of winning at all costs
This Week: Scaling fast vs. having a viable economic model, Tim O’Reilly on Silicon Valley’s favourite growth strategy, and Twitter's travails
What Yes Bank can learn from Cognizant and Francisco D’Souza
Leadership transitions at Yes Bank and Cognizant, is the Three Horizon model still relevant, interview with Raghuram Rajan, and an ethical dilemma for Silicon Valley’s next generation
The Fourth Estate versus Chanda Kochhar
The media’s job is not to prosecute, but step in when regulatory authorities fail. And ask questions of antiquated laws such as Angel Tax
Voluntary Aadhaar, the Aadhaar amendment bill, and UPI 2
Aadhaar news roundup, complex algorithms and real-world problems, designing a decent working place, and the unpredictability of complex adaptive systems
Work smart, create white spaces
This Week: Busyness, investing time wisely, deep work, the world in 2019, and more
The real world vs the idea of One Big Story
This Week: juggling contradictory principles, UDAN scheme, learnings from Michael Phelps, Airbnb vs hotel industry, the inevitability of Roger Federer and more