Posts tagged TED
Kid President: I Think We All Need a Pep Talk
We could all use a pep talk when running a small business or starting a new venture. Listen to Kid President’s pep talk for a heavy does of inspiration. As he says, “You were made to be awesome. So get to it!”
(via Kid President: I think we all need a pep talk | Video on TED.com)
In his now famous TED Talk, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers. Read More
Alexis Ohanian: How To Make a Splash in Social Media
In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.
Creativity and innovation come not from the ideas of our mind alone, but also from some conviction in our heart… an orientation of spirit.
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Simon Sinek
I enjoy the notion of improv and know the conversation with another person comes closer to the truth than a rehearsed 18 minute talk where, by nature, you are selling something to a group of people.
Some children are born to be entrepreneurs, but some need encouragement and guidance. In this TED talk, Cameron Herold suggests ways to bring out the innovative side of kids, and shares how to foster their growth as a budding entrepreneur.
BREAKER – ambitious new project by senior TED Fellow Juliette LaMontagne, aiming to expand the educational experience through a 12-week program that mobilizes interdisciplinary teams of young people ages 18 to 24 to design innovative solutions to big challenges, from the future of the book to urban micro agriculture.
This is doubly relevant. BREAKER is an intriguing attempt to realign higher education along an axis that’s both practical and ambitious. But it also makes us wonder what additional tools or programs might help young people generate ground-breaking ideas and get them to market. More incubators? A new kind of college?
