Archive for the tag: "ted"
Weekly inspiration #23: Internet Lovin’
Sunday being Valentines and the Chinese New Year, I tried to find a theme somehow connecting the two – ultimately settling on our love affair with the internet. Google’s first TV advertisement in the US captures the sentiment quite well. The internet enables and initiates almost everything, from information sharing to something potentially much more.
Ironically, [...]
Weekly Inspiration #13: TED special
Among all the ideas we have heard, some of the most inspiring ones came from TED. For those who don’t know TED, it started organizing exclusive conferences devoted to “ideas worth spreading” in 1984. It reached a truly global audience more recently when the content of the conferences was published and made freely available on [...]
On the surprising science of motivation
Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think, that’s what Daniel Pink demonstrates in this talk. There is a mismatch between what science knows and what managers do. How to best motivate people to do work? This message should have been heard by every bank manager two years ago. And is a must-hear for [...]
SWING THAT STRING
I’m sure you know that feeling: You hear people talking about something over and over again, but you just don’t really get what it’s all about, what’s really behind it and how it actually works. Everything sounds complicated and confusing - until somebody comes along, explains it to you in an understandable way, and in [...]
