5 Elements of a Great TED Talk

Professional Development, Reviews

I was watching this amazing TED talk about turning food deserts into food oases. Ten minutes later I was ready to pick up a shovel and dig. And I don’t enjoy gardening. So what makes for a great speech? In How to Deliver a TED Talk, author Jeremey Donovan...

Don’t Discount Your “Duh” Moments

Business, Reviews, Workforce

I listened to the TED talk. I sat through a Webinar on the topic. And, last week, I finally read Drive, a book that’s been sitting on my shelf for a while. In Drive, author Daniel Pink examines the research and concludes that business has it all wrong when it...

Using Smart Design to Decode the Data

Data

We’re swimming in data, but are we mining it intelligently? David McCandless is a “data journalist,” and he has spent a lot of time thinking about how to sort through data and make the information relevant. In this TED talk, McCandless talks about...