·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The measured, routine life
Some think all things must be quantified and managed. Others think of it as ridiculous. But the truth has nuances
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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·Business & Strategy
For a platform, how much control is too much control?
Commercial platforms that grew on the internet—from Facebook to Twitter, Airbnb to Oyo, Uber to Ola, Swiggy to Zomato—are struggling to find a balance
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Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Zomato Gold: A crisis that was waiting to happen
The Zomato Gold membership programme was a runaway success, but the inherent conflict at the heart of the scheme has sparked off a huge battle between the aggregator and restaurants. For Zomato, shifting the focus of diners from discounts to loyalty may be the best way forward
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Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant
·Technology & the Future
The man and the machine
August 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: AI-assisted app development, solar roads, biofuels, micro ATMs and brain-AI integration
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
How to battle a demand slowdown
In a slowdown, consumers become more choosy. Are auto majors doing enough to develop and launch next generation cars that today’s consumers find desirable?
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Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
What leaders need to do to capture value from innovation in the digital era
Innovation is easier in the digital era. Yet, capturing value from innovation is becoming more challenging. This calls for the leader’s role to change to that of chief experimenter
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Leadership & Organisation
An inquiry into Agility
Implementing agile principles isn’t easy. It needs leaders who feel secure letting go of power and trusting the team to discover where may answers lie
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Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
‘The power of coaching is to offer a different perspective’
Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle share what they learnt from their mentor, legendary coach Bill Campbell, in their book ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Artificial Intelligence
Not AI alone but AI + ethics
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital
·Artificial Intelligence
Algorithmic War is upon us
China and the US are already locked in a race to become the AI superpower. China seems to have a lead. It is creating an ecosystem for AI through state sponsorship and the innovations by entrepreneurial ventures
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Founding Fuel
·Artificial Intelligence
The unintended consequences of technology and why it matters
In this podcast, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar talks about how automated decisions affect billions and what consumers can do to take back control, can a VC firm be a Pixar of VC firms, and the organisational changes Google made to become AI-first
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·Artificial Intelligence
‘As machines become more intelligent, they also become unpredictable’
In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’
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Kartik Hosanagar
John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and Professor of Marketing | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
·Business & Strategy
Bharat is watching this. Is your brand watching too?
Business As Usual marketers are blissfully insulated from what’s happening on TikTok, an app that has at least 200 million of their own core customers hooked
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
Please look now: We are changing
To make sense of the uncertainties and disruptions around us, we must try and understand the underlying human attitudes and behaviour. There’s much for brands and marketers to learn from the TikTok phenomenon
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
An ethical toolkit for systems transformers
Sustainable progress of humanity requires a new toolkit with three disciplines: systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and collaborative enterprise design
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission