·Business & Strategy
The difficulty of cross-selling
How far can businesses push the power of platforms to sell new types of products? The past week offered some interesting pointers
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Trending
Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
·Economy, Policy & Society
Making sense of the New Capitalists
Your smartphone is the gateway for platform businesses to drive their hooks deep into your psyche and pockets, edge out traditional businesses, and reset markets. In doing so, they are becoming monopolies, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. What is fair play in this new world?
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Failure, feedback loops and learning
The do-learn-do mantra to learn continually
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·Business & Strategy
How platforms really work: A week-long interactive immersion
November 25-29: A special week of learning on the Future of Platforms for the Founding Fuel community
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·Leadership & Organisation
Play to your strengths
Change requires the right mindset and organisational practices
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·Technology & the Future
Bias in algorithms, patients' data and zombie capital
November 17, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Apple Card and bias, Google and health data, and do VCs matter
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
The insider with an outside in view
Should I continue as a full-time consultant to the chief transformation officer in my firm? Or am I better off moving to a part-time consulting role, take on other clients, and acquire a more diverse experience?
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C S Swaminathan
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
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?
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Technology & the Future
The promise and perils of breakthroughs
November 09, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Drones, quantum computing, and gene editing
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
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
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Leadership & Organisation
Your firm’s culture: What you do is who you are
Culture cannot be an afterthought for tech transformation. It has to be an essential part of it
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·Economy, Policy & Society
India is an R&D hub for MNCs. Will global protectionism play spoilsport?
Global Capability Centres have played a big role in the development of Indian engineering and innovation capabilities. Protectionist trends like the US-China trade disputes now raise important questions for India
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Economy, Policy & Society
Smartphones, kapda, makaan
What should we make of the humungous numbers being reported by ecommerce companies around festive sales?
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Becoming indistractable
Nir Eyal wrote the definitive book on how to design tech products that will get people hooked. His latest book ‘Indistractable’ has advice on how to avoid digital distractions and hold our own in this war for our attention. Some insights from the book
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Where do ideas come from?
Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations
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