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R Gopalakrishnan: Innovators who succeed

Successful innovators often take a measured approach. They postpone gratification and focus on execution

R Gopalakrishnan: Innovators who strangle innovation

One of the greatest dangers to the promise of an idea is the innovator's obsession with himself or his idea

R Gopalakrishnan: The corporation is a great innovation

Exemplary behaviour by visible leaders is a strong driver to embed corporate governance innovation

R Gopalakrishnan: Rosh gadol culture and a 'can-do' spirit

Companies should examine how to develop more rosh gadol, chutzpah and bitzua by influencing the organisational culture rather than only their processes

R Gopalakrishnan: The buzz around innovation

Whatever cynics might say, buzz has a value. It changes language and culture and that is hugely important in social transformation

R Gopalakrishnan: Innovation on the right track

How the Railways can play a key role in carrying Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat message across India

R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity - Lessons from Jesuits

Innovation produces unintended risks. However, only a scientific temper can advance knowledge

R Gopalakrishnan: Coping with technophobia

Innovators must recognise that there will be opposition to their innovation, but they must listen carefully to the concerns of those who oppose them

R Gopalakrishnan: The ascent of management

Control rather than freedom, direction rather than participation, productivity rather than creativity, in today's context it was unbelievable how companies were run in the seventies

R Gopalakrishnan: Ganesha, Gandhi & GM foods

Or, how to remove obstacles in innovating with food and agriculture

R Gopalakrishnan: For a second rice revolution

Better seeds and cultivation methods can be a game-changer

R Gopalakrishnan: Innovation across borders

Foreign direct investment can encourage a healthy flow of research & development in either direction

R Gopalakrishnan: The 'I' factor in innovation

Who should get the credit for an innovation? Should it be the one who conceptualised it or the one who commercialised it for public use?

R Gopalakrishnan: Time, patience & innovation

The story of shale gas fracking shows how innovations take long to diffuse

R Gopalakrishnan: 'Neat and clean' innovation

The idea of sanitation has raised many challenges down the years

R Gopalakrishnan: Consumer-driven innovation

How consumer problems drive the framing of the innovation question

R Gopalakrishnan: The biography of innovation

The impact of an innovation on human lives is more important than the 'first' person who came up with the idea

R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity is not in your genes

The idea is to stay open to new ideas and remain permanently curious

R Gopalakrishnan: Preparing for eureka

Mental preparedness can improve the chances of eureka at will

R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity from chaos

How serendipity and colliding neurons work in real life