·Economy, Policy & Society
Taming the tech beast
Why we need dialogue and deliberation to regulate technology, the trouble with TED talks, and how Richard Thaler’s nudge principles can be used for good and bad
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Will technology destroy democracy?
Job destruction, fake news, polarisation. Rapid advances in technology are blamed for these. Is that claim justified? Are other factors at play? Who will regulate technology?
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Performance monkeys on the TED stage
What started out as an intellectually stimulating event has degenerated into a series of shallow performances
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Nudge versus Richard Thaler
It looks inevitable technology companies will outrun the theories of the Nobel Prize winner in Economics. And that is a frightening thought
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Who we are is shaped by the questions we ask
This Week: How do you work with adaptive systems, why a tech mindset is not enough, and how do you measure achievement
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·Economy, Policy & Society
How may Einstein have thought of God and Aadhaar?
Does God exist? Is eating meat ethical? What about systems like Aadhaar? What about questions like these? A century after Einstein thought a hypothesis to explain the nature of space and time, it stands proven, and has been awarded the Nobel Prize. How may he take these questions on?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Building tech as if people mattered
Book review: In his new book ‘Hit Refresh’, Satya Nadella talks about operating with empathy and technology as a force for social good
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
An emergent India story
This Week: Amazon’s omni-channel push into Indian retail, an interview with Daniel Kahneman, urban youth and the India story, and reframing the Aadhaar debate
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Aadhaar, Twitter and strong opinions, loosely held
We have to deal with complexity—and for that we need space
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Less-than-rational actors: An interview with Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, grandfather of behavioural economics, talks about how the field came to be and the impact it has had
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·Leadership & Organisation
Reimagining people practices
This week: The power of design thinking in driving agility and a culture of learning
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·Economy, Policy & Society
The better angels of our nature
We live in polarised times. It leaves no room for middle ground. Either you’re good or bad. There is no room for nuance or discourse. What a pity!
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
You want an agile company. But is your HR agile?
How a design thinking approach to HR can make things simple and transform organisational culture
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Hari Abburi
Global HR Executive
·Economy, Policy & Society
The Aadhaar Briefing Note #2
The question of fake IDs; catching tax evasion; Equifax and the safety of our data in private hands; exciting opportunities in Bharat; Google Tez; and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Stay young. Stay foolish
That line is now a cliché. But fact is, there is no better way to be. What it implies is: Stay curious. Ask questions. Keeping learning
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