As a TEDxZagreb alum, I know it is an honor to take the stage with an audience who has high expectations but who is also rooting for you to deliver that message that keeps you up at night thinking. The imagination and journey allows each speaker to keep a fast pace to punch out key points in less than 20 minutes to save the world. Its exciting to go back to the site often and see what new topics are being explored. Some of my favorites have been presented to me from my students like did you ever wonder... how house plants can reduce indoor polution, how we can ship and save by designing and manufacturing items that are stackable and take up less space, how can we make government statistics sing and my alltime favorite, how can we look at people for their abilities and not box them into their disabilities.
This week 15 students in my current course had to check out TED and I ask they share it with the wider group of blog readers by putting their favorite themes by listing the speaker, theme, link and what impressed them the most about this particular idea worth spreading....in the comments below.
My favorite speaker is Jeff Skoll philanthropist and social entrepreneur. He was the first employee and the first president of eBay.
ReplyDeleteJeff makes movies that matter, films to make change.
Why I chose Jeff, because of his ability to influence the minds of other people. His films and documentaries that promote social value like climate change, water scarcity, human rights... His films have unique path to achieving people social change goals and forcing people to change their social perspectives,
Only in 2005, Skoll foundation gave $750 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to improve children's health around the world...
Find below Jaff Skoll speech:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_skoll_makes_movies_that_make_change.html
The best video (for me) I saw on Ted.com was: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed: Ric Elias.
ReplyDeleteThis video reminded me of all those things I’ve been postponing, because I also believe that I will be here forever… :)
Seize the day! This is a very powerful expression, which can be used on every aspect of our lives. Our time here is limited, so we got to make the best of it.
I think no further comment is necessary, and I strongly recommend this video to everyone. You can find it here:
http://blog.ted.com/2011/04/22/3-things-i-learned-while-my-plane-crashed-ric-elias-on-ted-com/
I watched a video by Miss Yang Lan. Yang Lan is a media baroness, corporate entrepreneur and a leading television host in China. She and her husband Bruno Wu co-founded Sun Media Investment Holdings Ltd, one of China’s most prominent private media groups. The business spans television production, newspapers and magazines, as well as on-line publishing. Miss Yang Lan is a journalist and entrepreneur. She is so called ‘’ Oprah of China’’. She has graduated from one college and applied for a sales business in a 5 star hotel in Beijing. She went through audition on a national television, it was the first television show where its hosts could speak from their own mind without reading a script. She went to USA to Columbia University. She started her own media company. She has interviewed many people during past years.
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely special case to me because what touches me the most is how she cares, writes and talks about people’s lives. She is dedicated and spreads her freedom of speech trying to teach everyone to do the same. She is trying to wake some people up and make them change their way of thinking, tries to make them think out of their own shells. What we can all learn from this case is that freedom of speech is important. We should express our minds and communicate as much as we can. She is very successful business woman and she also earns money for doing it, but at least she also cares for others. We can also learn that in her TV show she is not selling anything we can see or touch with our hands, she is selling stories, experiences and freedom.
http://www.ted.com/talks/yang_lan.html
Did you ever wonder why teenagers skip classes? Why they are bored and do not see the connection between school facilities and the actual employment?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of school would encourage teenagers to fight to get into, not to escape from it?
Geoff Mulgan speech about new age Studio School program is inspiring to me..
Showing different structure and organization, Studio School is fun yet educational and pedagogical encourages and motivates teenagers to attend school daily, to learn and do it with pleasure..
Entrepreneurs have created Studio School where one learns by doing and doing by learning!! And students whose performance is at a significantly higher level than in traditional schools.
The power of ideas leads to projects and products that will take some marginalized segments of the existing structures and work on them, not around them.
In this way we have a result that is useful and praiseworthy, and whose well-being spreads through various social aspects, and brings solutions to existing and persisting problems.
http://www.ted.com/talks/geoff_mulgan_a_short_intro_to_the_studio_school.html
Of course, as you all know by now, my favorite and most interesting speaker is Richard Branson.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm not going to talk about him.
On www.ted.com i found someone else interesting enough; Raghava KK.
Raghava is an indian self-thought artist, born in Bangalore, India in 1980.
He is best known for his early style of painting, in which he created large watercolour on canvas paintings using his hands and feet.
He started his career in 1998 as a cartoonist, but already he has been called "one of the most successful emerging artists in India" by many galleries and journalists.
In 2007, his work was showcased on the Mur Foster at the Carre d'Art Musee d'Art Contemporain in Nîmes, France.
Most recently, he spoke at the TED 2010 conference in Long Beach California. He was invited to share the stage with James Cameron, Bill Gates, singer Sheryl Crow, playwright Eve Ensler, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
Raghava gave a keynote address at a private conference held by billionaire Vinod Khosla where he spoke after former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bill Gates, CFO Goldman Sachs David Viniar, NFL hall-of-famer Ronnie Lott.
CNN featured Raghava on the front page of CNN.com in March 2010 and named him "top ten people the world is yet to know of"
Why do I find him interesting?
Well, he's only 31 and he had already been side to side with Tony Blair, Bill Gates and many others public and famous figures.
Also, in this TED's video, he talks about how he sees the world, or even better, in what way should he teach his children to think and see the world, but also any other person who wants to learn.
I just really like the way he's thinking and the simple way in which he explains it.
And of course, last but not least, I was wowed with his children's book for the iPad.
After I watched this video, I've googled him and his work so far and I liked what I saw.
I hope you'll share my opinion after you watch his video Shake up your story http://www.ted.com/talks/raghava_kk_shake_up_your_story.html
http://www.raghavakk.com/biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.K._Raghava
My favorite speaker on www.ted.com is Steve Jobs, and his commencement speech at Stanford University from 2005.
ReplyDeleteIn this video he's not presenting any new product, but an idea, or a philosophy of life.
He wanted to tell to students three stories. One about connecting the dots, one about love and loss and one about death.
This was a very inspiring speech because of many reasons, but one of them was very interesting to me. The idea of connecting the dots.
In the speech Steve Jobs says that you can’t connect the dots looking forward, but only looking backwards, and that this way you must believe that somehow the dots will connect in the future. He gives us plenty of examples form his life, when he thought that there is no good outcome from what he was doing at the time, but somehow these bad days, when he looks back, were the best things that happened to him. From this example we can learn that even if nothing seems good, if everything goes bad, there is a way for us to succeed in what we're doing. We only have to believe in it.
You can find this speech here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
Be hungry, be foolish!
First I must say that there is a really great videos on TED,. I first tough what to write about worlds first charter city.
ReplyDeletePaul Romer: The world's first charter city?
But than i keep searching and fund abut Jamie Oliver and idea of learning kids about food. I sound really great. And i must say thee is a lot things to learn in this video. First his way of thinking if you look a wellness world, or world of welenss is one of leader industries in 21st century because there is more more people looking for loosing weight and having problems of what to eat. So ideas is to follow the market if you look just in place where you live there is a lot new fitness center, wellness clubs and so on...
So Jami Oliver is going in the middle of problem that is home and why are Americas so overweight, the problem is home made food, it is lost. That is the part i like the most, kids don't now recognized the vegetables. And there is where he see problem and opportunity. So i thing he gave a lots of ides for others and it is a good part of business to invest in. He is world famous chef and have something behind him, great carrier.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer_the_world_s_first_charter_city.html
I like to learn and listen to people talking about what is in our mind, how it works, how to listen or learn. The last good speach on TED.com that I saw was by Julian Treasure: “5 ways to listen better”.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better.html
At the beginning he said that we keep only 25% of information that we hear, listen. That information shocked me. He talks about filters that we don't even know we have when listening. We block most of information while listening, it has become part of us, we've learn to ignore information.
Now, while I'm still studying, this is interesting thing to hear and learn about. If I could improve only my listening and paying attention, I could learn more that 50% just in class. That is why I find this talk educating. Mr. Treasure shows 5 different exercises to improve our listening.
I think we can learn more, do more and give back more if we pay more attention on listening to people around us.
My favourite speaker is Simon Sinek.
ReplyDeleteBeginning as a student in anthropology, Simon Sinek turned his fascination with people into a career of convincing people to do what inspires them.
Through his struggle to rediscover his excitement about life and work, he made some profound realizations and began his helping his friends and their friends to find their “why” -- at first charging just $100, person by person. Never planning to write a book, he penned Start With Why simply as a way to distribute his message.
In his speech How Great Leaders Inspire Action, he describes how it is that great leaders inspire action, why some people are able to achieve things when others are not. He explains the brilliant, biologically based ''Golden Circle'', a new way of looking at how people approach what they do. He also discusses the Law of Diffusion of Innovation, and weaves it all together with several brilliantly told examples, from Apple computer, to the Wright brothers to Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I liked the most is the idea that it’s not important WHAT you sell/offer, it’s WHY you sell it, and the ‘’why’’ part of your business are your believes, your paradigm, your view of the world. Sinek calls it the Golden Circle: ‘’How’’ – in the center, surrounded by “Why”, surrounded by a larger circle, “What”. People will buy something because they believe what you believe, not because they need something you sell: ‘’ People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.’’
Sinek gave an excellent example of that marketing strategy:
‘’If Apple were like everyone else, their message would be something like this: ‘ We make great computers. (the ‘what’ aspect of business) They’re beautifully designed, simple to use and user friendly. (the ‘how’ aspect) Wanna buy one?’ – ’Naaaw..’
Here’s how Apple actually communicates: ‘Everything we do we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking differently. (the ‘why’ aspect) The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed, simple to use and user friendly. (the ‘how’ aspect) We just happen to make great computers. (the ‘what’ aspect) Wanna buy one?’’ Totally different!
People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it, and what you do is simply the proof of what you believe.
And how great leaders inspire action? Well, there are leaders and there are those who lead. ‘’Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. Wether within organizations, we follow those who lead, not because we have to, but because we want to. Not for them, but for ourselves.’’ We follow them because we believe what they believe, because we share the ‘why’ aspect of things, we share the same paradigm.
I saw a lot of great videos on TED, but here is one I found recently and corresponds perfectly with our course.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_be_entrepreneurs.html
It is by Cameron Harold and it is called "Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs". I liked it so much because that is exactly what I think we should do and that is pretty much what I have been doing since I was a small kid, although no one thought me that.
For example, when I was 8 years old, our mother gave a restriction for playing video games to me and my younger brother. We each could have played for 30 minutes a day. The first thing I did was negotiate for better terms - I negotiated with our mom that if I don't use all of our time one day, it gets carried on to the next day. I soon realized that my brother wanted to play more much more than I did, so I came up with this brilliant idea - I would sell him my playing time! I had a little notebook in which I wrote everything - how much time did each of us use, how much did I sell to him and how much do we have left. When our parents found out about that, they couldn't believe it and they were half amazed, half shocked, but it gave them a laugh :) of course, they soon put new rules into power because they didn't want me selling playing time to my brother, but that was actually a bad move, it didn't stimulate our entrepreneurship spirit, it was just disincentive! Which reminds me of a lot of government measures...
Anyways, I totally agree with Cameron, we should teach our kids to be entrepreneurs, to find better, new ways of doing things, to fight for themselves and find their way in the world and not expect from someone else to solve their problems. Which, again, seems to be a disease of the todays world...
I really think there should be more entrepreneurship in economics, that is what I always thought economics is... Because that is always the start of value creation.