Fresh perspectives and timely insights from the Founding Fuel network. Stay current with the latest articles, conversations, and ideas shaping leadership and business strategy.
People work all their lives to find peace in their golden years. The more hopeful try to find a balance as they work. Both ideas are flawed
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
What if you were asked to run 333 kilometers? Most people would baulk. But not these elite athletes who do it in the harshest of conditions against everything man and nature throws at them. What they have to say can teach us a thing or two about life
Founding Fuel
Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
Pointers from a veteran who has been investing from the early days of the internet in India. As he says, "Made it on some, and failed on many."
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
The sixth edition of La Ultra, the cruellest run on Planet Earth, concluded recently. The race director shares lessons he learnt from the various participants on high performance
Dr. Rajat Chauhan
Founder | Back2Fitness
China is committing itself to automation. If all goes as per plan, soon robots and automation will be the norm in Chinese factories
Neelima Mahajan
Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger
Involve customers and cede control over certain activities by providing them an obstacle-free, easy-to-navigate and secure platform to perform tasks
Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of 'Rise of the Robots', explains the implications for human beings and the market-driven capitalist system.
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
Question and overthrow fondly held assumptions if you are to build an enterprise for the future
Harsh Mariwala
Chairman | Marico
Shift the conversation to two things: what about the rival's business plan enabled it to raise the money? And, how is it at all relevant to you?
Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
A Q&A with Zeynep Ton, author of "The Good Jobs Strategy", on how four retailers make more money by paying above-average wages.
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
Fears about technology displacing jobs are unrealistic. A network of technology-led enterprises will disrupt old-style massive factories and generate more opportunities for employment
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
The best way to keep your business intact is to destroy it with a superior solution, before someone else does
Founding Fuel
The emergence of an IP and technology-based leader from India will have a bigger long-term impact than a few Indians heading major global corporations
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
