What we learned together this week

Dear readers, 

In this week leading up to Diwali we have had a series of session for our CEO Fellowship and the “I don’t know what I want to do with my life” Fellowship. Our fellows spend the week writing their vision statements and conducting micro-experiments and we super thrilled to have them as a part of this journey.

We also spent some time reflecting on how Network Capital has grown over the years.

For us, Network Capital is an Indian company with an international outlook. Our vision is to take India to the world and bring the world to India. We focus on developing people and bringing out the best in them through content, community and career intelligence. End the end of the day, the larger goal is to help shape a new world by building a community that is united through kindness and defined by pluralism.

With this out there, lets have a look at the week gone by - 

1. Kamala Harris’ leadership principlesOn November 7, 2020, after an excruciatingly long counting progress, social media was ablaze with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. From the historic victory speech in which Harris proclaimed that “I might be the first, but I’m definitely not the last” to ‘desi twitter’ bursting with pride over the election of ‘Kamala Aunty’.  The election of the first female Vice President in over two centuries is a huge feat by any regard. Read more.

1. Tate Britain, Diwali, Patriotism vs NationalismThe word India invokes a range of reactions from foreigners today. While our contribution to global GDP and other hard metrics are impressive (with still a lot of room for improvement), the real strength of India is its underlying story. The Indian narrative with all its poetic chaos is its ultimate super power and all of us have a role to play. Read more.

2. Book discussion with Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri — A New Idea of India

In the coming week, we have our first faculty sessions for the “I don’t know what I want to do with my life” Fellowship -

1. Abhilasha Sinha — November 21, 2020Abhilasha is a graduate of IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. Over the years she has worked at the intersection of tech and innovation across diverse industries such as digital healthcare, blended education, and consumer tech across Asia and North America. Currently she’s the Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hike where she drives and optimizes high priority, cross-functional initiatives to further the company’s efforts of building the world’s first mobile-led virtual world experience. Outside her professional career she is passionate about mentoring college students and young professionals, and advising early stage businesses and non-profit organizations.

2. Kartik Desai — November 22, 2020Kartik leads Asha Impact, an impact investing and policy advocacy platform, a capital-on-call multi-family office for Indian business leaders, UHNIs and philanthropists to invest in scalable, for-profit social enterprises. Prior to setting up Asha in 2014, Kartik worked with two pioneering impact funds in India – Lok Capital and Aavishkaar – was an investment banker with DSP Merrill Lynch, and consulted with the Rockefeller Foundation and the UNDP in the US and Africa. He has led several pioneering initiatives in building the social enterprise and impact financing ecosystem in India such as being a judge on the world’s first reality TV show on impact investing, launching a social enterprise operating a co-working center and digital polling platform for underprivileged youth in Delhi, teaching seminars on impact investing, authoring op-eds and policy papers on different development issues, and being selected as a ‘Champion of Change’ by the Indian PM’s office and Niti Aayog. He completed his education at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelors in Finance) and SIPA at Columbia University (Masters in International Affairs). 

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Afterthought - Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true. ― Gilbert K. Chesterton

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