
Lessons from the road
Entrepreneurs oftentimes stand at the crossroads. What road do you choose then? The one that leads to valuations? Or that to a life well lived?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.

Entrepreneurs oftentimes stand at the crossroads. What road do you choose then? The one that leads to valuations? Or that to a life well lived?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Rich insights from tables and charts won’t be enough. People connect to stories
Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies

People-related issues are complex and unpredictable. Elicit stories about them to understand patterns and design the right interventions
Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks

Like in sport, in business too a coach can hold the space and engage a star player to sort out his game when going through a rough patch
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change

India Inc needs to do more to make the workplace fair, equitable and safe for women
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Having registered one billion Indians, the team behind Aadhaar is now creating a digital infrastructure—the India Stack—that promises to disrupt financial services, make service delivery dramatically cheaper and efficient and boost the startup ecosystem
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Design thinking expert Jeanne Liedtka believes that everyone has the potential to be an innovator. They just need to know how.
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

The obvious list of things to try includes prototyping, manual collation and more convenient prioritization
Nitin Srivastava
CEO | Toqfactor Technologies

In this extract from chapter 6 of his book, ‘Leveraging Human Capital’, K Ramkumar talks about how challenge, testing, competitiveness and hard confrontation are important attributes of nurturing champions
K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre

No longer seen as window dressing, today design is being seen as a key source of competitive advantage in business—as well as other parts of life
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

Jobless growth is a multi-cause, systemic problem. Tackling each cause individually will backfire. A more effective solution is to develop a synergistic policy-matrix
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

An ability to change decisions is not about inconsistency, it is about flexibility. Insights from Al Pittampalli’s book ‘Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Mind to Change the World’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International

What makes you think you’re cut out for one? Do you have it in you? How will you measure yourself?
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur

Emma Seppälä, author of ‘The Happiness Track’, on the benefits of wellbeing
CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

All digital platforms have similar products or similar content. How is the consumer to distinguish between this glut of providers?
Amrita Chowdhury
Director | Gaia Smart Cities