·Leadership & Organisation
Firing the Annual Performance Review
Why the annual performance review is finally getting the pink slip. The first of a two-part article
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·Leadership & Organisation
How to retain high achievers and keep them well-grounded
What to do when you have a high achiever who is raring to go, but is not ready for the big stuff yet
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Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Your Start-up Is Dying
Because you fail to focus on converting visitors to heavy users
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort
Every industry thinks it is unique and has little to learn from someone else. Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven’s book, 'Not Invented Here: Cross-Industry Innovation', shows how you can learn from other industries
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
There's no such thing as work-life balance
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
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Interested in a 20% increase in sales?
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Every battle is fought in the head
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
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Getting The Funding Piece Right
Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
20 things to think of for angel investors
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."
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Life lessons on winning from losing
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
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Dr. Rajat Chauhan
Founder | Back2Fitness
·Technology & the Future
China steps towards intelligent manufacturing
China is committing itself to automation. If all goes as per plan, soon robots and automation will be the norm in Chinese factories
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Neelima Mahajan
Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger
·Business & Strategy
Improve customer satisfaction at minimal cost: Convert customers into 'employees'
Involve customers and cede control over certain activities by providing them an obstacle-free, easy-to-navigate and secure platform to perform tasks
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Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author
·Economy, Policy & Society
The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?
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.
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·Business & Strategy
It's time to destroy your business
Question and overthrow fondly held assumptions if you are to build an enterprise for the future
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Harsh Mariwala
Chairman | Marico
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Staying motivated when rivals raise a lot more money
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?
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Subroto Bagchi
Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist