Wow, Gates did a great job at TED this year. Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter? What has driven his transformation? I think it’s because he moved from presenting about his job to presenting about his passion, and suddenly he communicates well. So, is it possible that we can be so passionate [...]
Topic: Delivery, Event, Strategy
Tags: Bill Gates, carbon, fireflies, S.T.A.R. Moment, TED
It’s nice to be an attendee this year instead of running around the bowels of the Long Beach Performing Art Center supporting speakers. I gotta say, the presentations are of utmost caliber. There were only a couple so far were in desperate need of help.
For me, that is fantastic news. Many presenters have figured out [...]
Topic: Delivery
Tags: David Cameron, Day 1, Ester Duflo, Haiti, Jamie Oliver, TED, TED2010
TED sent a note today about the TEDGlobal talks that are “creating waves” so it was fun to see all three of the talks we helped with on the list. Here are some tidbits about them:
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, is an amazing photographer. We put her beautiful images into Keynote. To keep a gallery-like effect to [...]
Topic: Design, Event, Video
Tags: daniel pink, Design, paul romer, taryn simon, TED, templates
It’s hard to stop Nancy Duarte once she gets started talking about design. And that’s exactly what happened when she met Jimmy Guterman, executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review, at the most recent TED conference. It’s no surprise that Nancy views the world through a design lens, a skill which she has used to [...]
Topic: Book Reviews, Business, Design, Event, Interview, Strategy
Tags: garr reynolds, management, MIT sloan, TED
I read Outliers and The Element back to back last week.
Net-net is that people aren’t successful from passion alone, usually there are other factors or “flukes” that lead to them living in their element. You may have heard successful people say that what made them great is that they were at the right place at [...]
Topic: Book Reviews
Tags: interlochen, ken robinson, malcom gladwell, outliers, TED, the element
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