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Talent drives strategy in the digital era. Is HR ready?
Today business strategy means sensing new opportunities, and people are the key to creating value. So how do you approach human capital in this new era? Corporate guru Ram Charan, McKinsey’s Dominic Barton and Korn Ferry’s Dennis Carey explore in their book ‘Talent Wins’
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Disruptive tech: There’s hope for the future. But fear too
We are facing an avalanche of disruptive technologies. But adapting to change will not be easy. Sometimes it will even seem traumatic. Some insights from Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever's book ‘The Driver in the Driverless Car’
What AI can show us about what it means to be human
Brian Christian, author of ‘The Most Human Human’ and ‘Algorithms to Live By’, discusses the gaps and overlaps between humans and machines
Know when to step off the accelerator
This Week: Why not to pursue every new idea, perfection vs getting stuff done, bringing business education closer to practice, and more
Models, tech platforms and the hope for a better future
This Week: How civic tech can help Swachh Bharat, Aadhaar and digital platforms for development, and the importance of celebrating failures
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Celebrate authentic failures
In his new book ‘A Biography of Innovations’ R Gopalakrishnan, former Tata Sons executive director, talks about learning from mistakes and the importance of intellectual curiosity, collective ingenuity and storytelling
Change: From idea to action
Kishore Biyani’s Retail 3.0 strategy, the art of selling, and why pain can be good and necessary
A salesperson’s talismans: Resilience, persistence and pride in the product
Through these two anecdotes from his book ‘Sell: The Art, the Science, the Witchcraft’ Subroto Bagchi illustrates how the best in the business overcome mistrust and find new doors if one is closed
Ships of wood and men of steel
From the Antarctic to the Moon, and Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Ernest Shackleton to Muhammad Yunus, there is much to catch up on
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