Tag: TED Talk

Leadership

The Importance of Incorporating Elements of Play at Work

Premise: In the past couple of days, I have stumbled on to videos and articles about the importance of having fun in our lives. I have been thinking about this for a long time, so much so that my last book was called – “Being Happy“. It seems that having fun and being happy are not necessarily the same thing. Or is it? And what does having fun got to do with Leading Transformations? Let’s explore this a bit further. But before we go ahead, I would implore you to watch the videos. The first video features John Cohn, sharing […]

Inspiration, Leadership

Infectious Generosity

Premise: I watched this TED talk delivered by Chris Anderson and was inspired by this. He tells a lot of stories that have sparked the imagination of people, who went on to spread a lot of joy by being generous and creative. I also like the concept that Ben Zanders talks about in his book, The Art of Possibility, about “Giving an A”. At the beginning of every class that he teaches, he tells his students that he will give them an “A” as their grade, provided they write him a letter, dated the day their class finishes (and in […]

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership

Flourish or Perish – We will be doing it Together

This TED talk by former CEO of Patagonia shows the scale of what is possible, if we have the vision and the leadership skills in place. Kristine Tompkins shares her journey from being a corporate CEO to being a nature conservationist. She shares the extent of the impact that one can have if only we are committed to the cause. She and her now deceased husband – Doug went about doing what they thought was the best thing to heal the planet. They put the larger good of our planet at the center of their lives for the past few […]

Ideas, Innovation

Breakthrough Innovations

Introducing Vycle: Vycle is a human-powered vertical transport system for our expanding cities. It’s a cross between a cycle and an elevator. This enables us to use the concepts of riding a cycle but instead of going forward, we go up. This idea also combines the idea of allowing us to do a little bit of exercise over the course of the day, without having to take time out to exercise from our schedules. There is already a growing body of science that shows that non-intensive and consistent movement through out the day might be much more beneficial than intense workout for […]