Dalai Lama - Centrality of Compassion in Human Life and Society

October 14, 2010 - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaks on the centrality of compassion in Maples Pavilion at Stanford University. He shares his thoughts on the necessity of friendship, altruism, family, selflessness, and religion, from the perspectives of such wide-ranging disciplines as education, social psychology and the neurosciences.

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Harvard Business Review - Green Recovery: Emerge from the Downturn on Top

About this video
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, explains how to get lean, get smart, and emerge from the downturn on top.

About Andrew Winston
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times and prepare your company for growth when the downturn ends. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works — and what doesn't — when companies go green.

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, and has appeared in major media, including Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and CNBC. Andrew is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA.

Andrew bases his work on significant in-company business experience. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. After these more traditional roles, Andrew pursued his passion to explore the overlap between business and environment. He served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale's renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Today, Andrew is a highly respected and dynamic speaker, reaching audiences of thousands of people around the world and acting as a practical evangelist for the benefits of going green. He also writes extensively on green business strategy, including a weekly column for Harvard Business Online, regular pieces on Huffington Post, and a monthly strategy e-letter, Eco-Advantage Strategies. For his efforts, Andrew was recently named a "Planet Defender" by Rock the Earth.

Andrew received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale. He lives in Riverside, CT with his wife Christine and two young sons.



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The Dalai Lama Talks About Compassion, Respect

Two talks at Stanford emphasize the need for dialogue in resolving conflict, and the need for compassion that extends beyond creeds and beliefs.



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Domestic Violence Awareness Month

President Obama and Vice President Biden speak about the unprecedented efforts across the Federal Government to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence in an event marking Domestic Violence Awareness Month.



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Harvard Business Review - How to Stop Good Ideas from Getting Shot Down

About the video:
John Kotter, emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, outlines four common attacks and gives some great advice to defend against them.

About the author:
John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful

transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, Kotter's vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again. Most recently, Kotter has been involved in the creation and co-founding of Kotter International, a leadership organization that helps Global 5000 company leaders develop the practical skills and implementation methodologies required to lead change in a complex, large-scale business environment.

When speaking to groups, Kotter draws on the history of recent successes and failures in the business world. He explores the new rules of leadership and the importance of lifelong learning in the post-corporate world. Kotter offers the leadership tools necessary to achieve success in a business world that reinvents itself every day. He continues to speak at Harvard Business School Executive Education Programs, including the prestigious Advanced Management Program (AMP). These highly competitive professional seminars were created by Kotter to teach the important steps needed for successful leadership and change. When John Kotter speaks to an audience he speaks with one and only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results.



If you got curious and want to buy the book, you can do it here: Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

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Harvard Business Review - Navigating Major Career Transitions

About this video
Michael D. Watkins discusses how to handle your next move.

About Michael D. Watkins
Michael D. Watkins is the author of "the on-boarding bible*" The First 90 Days - which has sold over a 500,000 copies in English and has been translated into 27 languages. His mission is to help executives navigate their transitions into new roles though his work at Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com). His new book is Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions. You can also check him out at his personal website www.MichaelDWatkins.com.



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Harvard Business Review - Understanding Your Strategic Purpose

About this video
Nikos Mourkogiannis, author of Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies explains his strategic framework.

Nikos Mourkogiannis
Nikos is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of Strategic Leadership. With over 25 years experience at the highest levels of industry and strategy consulting, Nikos is an independent consultant who has created an elite global network of alliance partners specializing in Strategic Leadership, Purpose-Led Transformation and Human Capital advising the world’s most prominent chairmen, CEOs and government leaders.In 2004 Nikos founded Panthea Leadership Advisors, a global joint venture partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, became Chairman in 2006 and in 2008 sold his shares to Booz Allen Hamilton.

Nikos has been featured in many magazines discussing leadership .His book, Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies has been selected as a best business book of the year 2006 by strategy+business, Fast Company, Leadership Now, and 800-CEO-READ. Purpose has been enthusiastically endorsed by chairmen and CEOs of such global companies as Deutsche Börse, Maersk Oil, Campbell Soup Company, Braun, and Whole Foods. His book has been favourably reviewed by such publications as The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Times. Nikos has written for many publications including strategy+business magazine, Leader to Leader, The Conference Board Review, Leadership Excellence, Ivey Business Journal and is currently a Guest Columnist for Business Week online.

After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, Nikos worked for Monitor Company for 12 years, where he rose to serve as Chairman and CEO of Monitor’s European, African and Eurasian operations, creating the most profitable and fastest growing region of the company. He was also a Director on the Board serving as a member of the Management Compensation Committee and leading the Global Recruiting Committee. He then founded and served as a Director on the Board and Chairman of Panthea Leadership Advisors which he has recently sold. Before Monitor, Nikos worked for General Dynamics, where he was the only non-engineer ever to serve as Director of F-16 Programs. Prior to General Dynamics, Nikos worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation as the advisor to the President of Westinghouse International.

Nikos studied Political Economy and Government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard after receiving an LLB from Athens University, School of Law, It was this time at Harvard where he helped develop the first course on Negotiation with Professor Roger Fisher, author of Getting to Yes He taught this course for several years and helped develop the Harvard Negotiation Center. Nikos became Senior Advisor to the Center and part of the team that devised the “Single Negotiating Text,” used by the Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, in the Camp David Accords.



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Happiness By The Metre

Send Happiness by the meter, an hansom idea!

Happiness By The Metre - Campaign from Ourwork on Vimeo.

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Harvard Business Review - How Companies Can Make Better Decisions, Faster

About this video
Marcia Blenko, leader of Bain & Company's Global Organization Practice, explains how to put effective decision making at the center of your business.

About Marcia Blenko
Marcia Blenko graduated from Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics/Economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After several years with Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York and London, Marcia earned an MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Marcia joined Bain in 1988 and has worked thirteen of her twenty years in the firm’s London office. She is currently a partner in Bain’s Boston office and leads Bain’s Organization Practice in North America. Marcia has extensive experience in strategy development, implementation, and organizational change across a range of sectors including health care, retail, and consumer products.

Marcia has written or coauthored a number of articles on organization, leadership and executive compensation including “Who Has the ‘D’? in Harvard Business Review; “The Art of Developing Leaders at Kraft” in Harvard Management Update; “Making Sense of Executive Pay” in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda, as well as other articles in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

She is also the author of the Bestseller book Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization



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Secretary Clinton: "Tomorrow Will Be Better"

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a message to the LGBT community that "Tomorrow Will Be Better".



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Harvard Business Review - The Role of Tomorrow's Leaders

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Management thought leaders share their ideas on what leadership means in a world that is less hierarchical and more globally interconnected. Featuring: Andrew Pettigrew, Bob Johansen, Barbara Kellerman, Deborah Ancona, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Dr. Ellen Langer, Evan Wittenberg, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Marshall Ganz, and Scott Snook.



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President Obama: It Gets Better

As part of the It Gets Better Project, President Obama shares his message of hope and support for LGBT youth who are struggling with being bullied.



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Harvard Business Review - Executing on Innovation

About the video
Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business professor, on why innovation is so hard to implement and what you can do about it.

About Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan (www.vg-tuck.com) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation.

He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

He is the 2009 Professor-in-Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant for General Electric.

He has been recognized by BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The London Times as a top thought leader in the field of strategy. He works with CEOs and top management teams in Fortune 1000 corporations to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy.

He is the author of the book The Other Side of Innovation and co-author of the best selling book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution, which has been rated by The Wall Street Journal as a “Top 10 Recommended Read”.


Now that you watched the video, you can buy the book here: The Other Side of Innovation

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Harvard Business Review - Social Intelligence and Leadership

About this video
An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization's performance.

About Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman is the author of the international bestsellers Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence, and the co-author of the acclaimed business bestseller Primal Leadership.

He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for his media writing. He lives in the Berkshires.



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Harvard Business Review - Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

About this video 
An interview with Stewart Friedman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Traditional thinking pits work and the rest of our lives against each other. But taking smart steps to integrate work, home, community, and self will make you a more productive leader and a more fulfilled person.


About Stewart D. Friedman (from wikipedia)
Stewart D. Friedman is the founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984, and became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work within the fields of Leadership Development, Human Resources and Work-life balance on the application theory and research on the real challenges facing organizations. In 2001, Friedman completed a two-year assignment as the director of the Leadership Development Center at Ford, where he ran a 50-person, 25 MM operation.

Friedman has published numerous books and articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change. Work and Family - Allies or Enemies?: What Happens When Business Professionals Confront Life Choices (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus, Oxford University Press, 2000) was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books. His most recent book, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, was published in June 2008 by Harvard Business School Press. The book has been on the USA Today bestseller booklist and won several other book awards.

Friedman has consulted a wide range of organizations, executives and distinguished individuals, including Jack Welch and former Vice President Al Gore. He serves on numerous advisory boards, and conducts workshops globally on leadership and "the whole person", creating change, and strategic human resources issues. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media, and was chosen by Working Mother as one of "America's 25 most influential men for having improved conditions for working parents".

Friedman holds a B.A. in Psychology from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, and an M.A. in Psychology and Ph. D in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.




You can buy You can buy Friedman's book here:  Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

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Harvard Business Review - Developing the CEO Within You

About the video
An interview with Joseph L. Bower, Professor, Harvard Business School. To become an effective CEO, work for companies committed to leadership development, and take responsibility for your own development on the job.

About the Book (from Amazon):
With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's culture and history that they need to succeed. Result? Many deliver disappointing performances.

Companies can avoid this scenario, contends Joseph Bower in The CEO Within. Drawing on a decade's research (including interviews with leading CEOs) and experience managing the succession process, Bower explains how companies can develop a cohort of internal candidates one of whom may be suited to the increasingly demanding CEO role. The key? Groom inside-outsiders. These leaders view their role through the lens of someone who just bought the company unencumbered by the cognitive and emotional baggage that comes from a long tenure in the organization. But they also leverage the knowledge they ve accumulated about the company s people, suppliers and customers, and future direction.

Placed squarely at the intersection of succession planning and leadership development, this book describes the distinguishing attributes of the inside-outsider and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal candidates, companies get the leadership they need when they need it.





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Harvard Business Review - Put Your Employees First

About the video
Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, Ltd., explains how inverting the management pyramid leads to superior organizational performance.

About Vineet Nayar
"How can a company "take a chip out of the marble façade of the office of the CEO?" asks Vineet Nayar - a provocative question coming from someone who himself is a CEO. One method: Post his 360 feedback on the intranet for all employees to see."

A passionate yet disruptive thinker, Vineet has infused HCL with a unique brand of energetic leadership. Convinced that leadership lies at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, his Employee First, Customer Second philosophy nurtures this talent ground up. The success of this radical transformative approach has received recognition at Harvard Business School and institutions across the world. Fortune magazine coins his leadership style as "The world's most modern management".

Since 2005, when he became President and later CEO of HCL Technologies, Vineet has led a remarkable turnaround that saw the company triple its revenues and income growth. The value-based leadership simultaneously resulted in the company being ranked by Hewitt Associates as the Best Employer in India and by BusinessWeek amongst the top five most influential companies in the world.

Beyond the corporate sphere, Vineet is also a founding member of the Asia Gender Parity Group at World Economic Forum (WEF), an active member of India Council for Sustainable Development (ICSD) steering committee, and has also established a non-profit organization called SAMPARK in 2004 which has a vision of "creating a million smiles" through improving the quality, infrastructure and opportunity for education to the underprivileged.

Vineet is an avid blogger. He hosts his own blog at www.vineetnayar.com and is amongst a select group of discussion leaders invited by Harvard Business Review to host a regular blog at http://discussionleader.harvardbusiness.org/nayar. This blog is aptly titled 'Inverted Wisdom.' You can also follow Vineet on twitter @vineetnayar



Once you’ve watched the video, you can grab Vineet Nayar's book here: Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

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Harvard Business Review - The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make

About the video
Management thought leaders share their ideas on how leadership goes wrong. Featuring: Bill George, Evan Wittenberg, Dr. Ellen Langer, Andrew Pettigrew, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Carl Sloane, Jonathan Doochin, Scott Snook, and Daisy Wademan Dowling.



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Stuff won't make you happy!

How many toys do Oliver, Ben and Clementine each need to be happy? You might be surprised. Part of the LOOP SCOOPS broadband series for kids.



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What is the best way to stay focused and motivated?

Stephen Lindquist asked this question in the LinkedIn Group:

"I am interested in getting into consulting, blogging and Ebay selling. What is the best way to stay focused and motivated in trying something new without getting negative or discouraged?"

So I decided to write this post to answer his question.

There are several ways to stay focused in our goals, and the most efficient I know is to get enough reasons to stay focused. Jim Rohn said many times that is breakthrough was when his mentor told him "Jim, you don't need more potential or talent to became successful, you already have enough potential and enough talent, what you need is more reasons!". For you to understand this statement I will give you a couple of examples, imagine that someone in your family is dying from cancer and in order to save him you would need to get a substantial amount of money, what would you do? Or if someone called you and told you "I've got your daughter, and if you don't get me a million dollars within a month I will kill her." I guess that in both this situations you would do anything in your power to get the necessary amount of money. The good news is that you don't need to get in this kind of situations to be successful, to get what you want. What you need is to get yourself in that kind of mindset. Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich, explains very well how to get in that kind of mindset, and instead of me trying to explain it, I will leave you his own words:

"The method by which DESIRE for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps, viz:

First. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say "I want plenty of money." Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter).

Second. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as "something for nothing.)

Third. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

Fourth. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Fifth. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

Sixth. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. AS YOU READ-- SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY."

This will get you in the kind of certainty necessary to keep you focused. Certainty is the holly grail between someone taking action or not. One word, certainty! When someone is absolutely certain, "if I do this I will get this result, and that result is going to change my life", you will do it. On the other hand, if you think that is not going to work, than you are not going to do it.

Ok, once you have done this and you are certain that you are going to achieve your goals, your dream, how the hell are you actually going to achieve them!? The answer is very simple "BREAK IT DOWN!", if the task seems to big or to difficult to be fulfilled, break it down! Imagine that you have a goal to write a 400 pages book in a year, and you have never written anything in your life, at first this task seems almost impossible, but now imagine that you have to write a page and a quarter everyday, it already seems more manageable (you can actually do this in this site), and if a page and a quarter seems to much for you, think of writing a paragraph every couple hours. Do one thing a day, one subject a week to make progress to your goal.

If something does not work, change it! Change your approach, change your methods, until you get the result you wanted. There are no failures, you cannot fail and you never fail, you always success to get a result, it may not be the result you expected, but it's a result anyway, and you learn from it and then you try it a different way to get a new result. The key here is to keep going, keep trying, never stop, don't give up! As Anthony Robbins uses to say:

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if:

1. You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, 
2. You're willing to take massive action, 
3. You notice what's working or not, and 
4. You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Concluding, in order for you to succeed in achieving your goals:

1. You must have enough reasons for achieving them, if you don't have enough reasons go get then, otherwise you will fail.
2. Make a plan for achieving your goals, define when and how you are going to achieve it, be specific.
3. Break your plan into tiny, achievable tasks, that you can do every day
4. Measure your progress to success and change your plan accordingly whenever necessary

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Harvard Business Review - The Crucial Skill for Tomorrow's Leaders

About the video
Management thought leaders share their ideas on what future leaders can't live without. Featuring: Angel Cabrera, Bill George, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Andy Zelleke, Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Evan Wittenberg, Dr. Ellen Langer, and Scott Snook.



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Scott Berkun Lecture: The Myths of Innovation

About the Author

Scott Berkun worked on the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft from 1994-1999 and left the company in 2003 with the goal of writing enough books to fill a shelf. The Myths of Innovation is his second book: he wrote the best seller, The Art of Project Management (O'Reilly 2005). He makes a living writing, teaching and speaking. He teaches a graduate course in creative thinking at the University of Washington, runs the sacred places architecture tour at NYC's GEL conference, and writes about innovation, design and management at http://www.scottberkun.com.

About the Book The Myths of Innovation (editorial reviews from Amazon)

How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in The New York Times, bestselling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and suprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations -- truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today. Through his entertaining and insightful explanations of the inherent patterns in how Einstein’s discovered E=mc2 or Tim Berner Lee’s developed the idea of the world wide web, you will see how to develop existing knowledge into new innovations.

Each entertaining chapter centers on breaking apart a powerful myth, popular in the business world despite it's lack of substance. Through Berkun's extensive research into the truth about innovations in technology, business and science, you’ll learn lessons from the expensive failures and dramatic successes of innovations past, and understand how innovators achieved what they did -- and what you need to do to be an innovator yourself. You'll discover:

• Why problems are more important than solutions
• How the good innovation is the enemy of the great
• Why children are more creative than your co-workers
• Why epiphanies and breakthroughs always take time
• How all stories of innovations are distorted by the history effect
• How to overcome people’s resistance to new ideas
• Why the best idea doesn’t often win

"For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don’t have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we’re satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong."

-- Scott Berkun, from the text

"Berkun sets us free to change the world."

-- Guy Kawasaki, author of Art of the Start

Scott was a manager at Microsoft from 1994-2003, on projects including v1-5 (not 6) of Internet Explorer. He is the author of three bestselling books, Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation and Confessions of a Public Speaker. He works full time as a writer and speaker, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes magazine, The Economist, The Washington Post, Wired magazine, National Public Radio and other media. He regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Businessweek, has taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, and has appeared as an innovation and management expert on MSNBC and on CNBC. He writes frequently on innovation and creative thinking at his blog: scottberkun.com and tweets at @berkun.

Here are two free chapters to whet your appetite. Then once you’ve read those, you can grab the rest here: The Myths of Innovation

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Happiness

The Pursuit Of Happiness. Watch more top selected videos about: 60 Minutes/60 Minutes: Newsmakers

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Greenpeace - Inspiring Action

This fragile Earth needs action.
It needs you. Greenpeace International



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FATHER FORGETS W. Livingston Larned Video Version

What has habit been doing to you?



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Achieving Zero

Help UNICEF in putting an end to the unnecessary deaths of 24,000 children who die each day of preventable causes.Donate NOW, please visit unisefusa.org

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Inspiring Macomb Township war vet who lost legs in Iraq dies from heart attack during hockey

Alex Knapp lost his legs in Iraq but found a new lease on life as a motivational speaker back in Macomb Township. After the accident he could have decided that life was unfair, and be revolted and unhappy for the rest of his life, but instead he decided to evaluate his situation, see it as it was, not better or worst, and found a way to take advantage of his situation. It shows a lot of courage, character and persistence. Rest in peace Alex, with the assurance that you will be an inspiration to the rest of us.

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The Meaning of Life

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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

At the beginning of the twentieth century we saw the rising of the industrial age, were suddenly, with Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie we realized the power of normalization and mass production, and so we passed the entire century learning ways to produce and distribute more goods as cheap as possible. In this age the distinction between managers and workers was very clear, managers would tell their workers exactly what to do, and workers would follow their orders by the book. In this environment monetary incentives worked pretty well, objectives were given to the worker, and if he accomplished his goals he would be rewarded for it, it was simple and it worked.

Today we live in the information age, the mass production processes are so optimized that they only need unqualified workers or no workers at all. In this age most of us is paid to think and to come up with great ideas for new products or services, or to solve some challenging and unpredictable problems, we no longer have managers to tell us exactly what to do, we have to come up with the solutions ourselves. In this kind of environment the old model of incentives does not work any more. In the Maslow's hierarchy of needs most of us already have our basic needs and social needs fulfilled, and are now at the self-actualization or self-esteem hierarchies, and at this hierarchies we are motivated by a challenging work and recognition more that by money.

Dan Pink, the author of the book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko explains this very well at is talk on TED. Watch it and leave a comment with your opinion.



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Online Motivator Best Quotes Acording to YOU

In May, 2010 I asked all of you that are in the LinkedIn Group to identify your favourite quotes of all times. This video is a compilation of all the quotes you identified making it easier for us to review them whenever we need or feel like.

Watch it and leave a comment with more great quotes so I can can make a second volume of this video.

P.s. don't forget to identify the author.



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Fear.less Magazine October Issue!

The October issue of Fear.less Magazine is now online, Download It or View Online.

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Napoleon Hill - The Man Who "Thought" His Way Into Partnership With Thomas A. Edison

In this passage of his best-selling book "Think and Grow Rich", Napoleon Hill explains how Edwin C. Barnes became partner of Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor.



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Will Smith Script For a Successful Life

Life will give you everything you want. For that you just have to fulfil two conditions: first you have to know that you what in life and second you have to know how to ask for it.

Will Smith gives you a script for having everything you want, all you need is to follow it.

I'm begging you, start following his advice today, right now! If you do so I can grantee you that your life will change for the better.



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