Wanna get together for coffee? How about we meet for coffee? Let's book coffee some time. Where are we meeting for coffee? We know it's about much more than coffee.
Steven Johnson explains.
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Kneale Mann | Leadership Strategist, consultant, writer, speaker, executive coach facilitating performance growth with leaders, management, and teams.
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Showing posts with label TEDTalks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TEDTalks. Show all posts
September 9, 2013
April 24, 2012
Do You Enjoy What You Do?
It’s a means to an end, a paycheck or a way to get to the weekend. All explanations of how far too many people describe their career. Leadership can come from each of us but often that strength is squashed by spending time during the week to make money in order to pay the bills and perhaps have some fun once in a while.
But what if we got to enjoy our work?
Sir Ken Robinson did an 18 minute talk at TED2006 and to date, more than four million of us have watched it. As a lifelong educator, his subject was about the fact that the education system is killing creativity. He returned to TED in 2010.
You’d think he would tell us all to go to school. You may be surprised by his thoughts on the topic and how we best look to our passion and life’s calling of which few people actually do. Ken is entertaining, thought provoking and funny.
If you haven't seen this, watch it, then follow your dreams.
Kneale Mann
TED | Ken Robinson
But what if we got to enjoy our work?
Sir Ken Robinson did an 18 minute talk at TED2006 and to date, more than four million of us have watched it. As a lifelong educator, his subject was about the fact that the education system is killing creativity. He returned to TED in 2010.
You’d think he would tell us all to go to school. You may be surprised by his thoughts on the topic and how we best look to our passion and life’s calling of which few people actually do. Ken is entertaining, thought provoking and funny.
If you haven't seen this, watch it, then follow your dreams.
Kneale Mann
TED | Ken Robinson
July 24, 2011
Our Ideas Need to Meet
Imagination is what separates us from any other species.
This past weekend marked the first anniversary of Social Capital Ottawa which was a resounding success. Big props to Lara Wellman, Vicky Bisson, Sara McConnell, Rebecca Stanisic, Andrea Tomkins and Karen Wilson. It was an outstanding event, great sponsors, fabulous content and they nailed every detail. And thanks to Dennis Van Staalduinen who rocked the joint during our session and if you get the chance, ask him if he's going to double down.
During my portion, I touched on this talk from British author and speaker Matt Ridley who has been studying and writing about genetics, society and evolution for decades. He outlines in this fascinating TEDTalk that trading ideas is essential to our survival.
Ridley's website is the Rational Optimist and this is his TEDTalk from 2010 where explains why our ideas have sex.
Kneale Mann
This past weekend marked the first anniversary of Social Capital Ottawa which was a resounding success. Big props to Lara Wellman, Vicky Bisson, Sara McConnell, Rebecca Stanisic, Andrea Tomkins and Karen Wilson. It was an outstanding event, great sponsors, fabulous content and they nailed every detail. And thanks to Dennis Van Staalduinen who rocked the joint during our session and if you get the chance, ask him if he's going to double down.
During my portion, I touched on this talk from British author and speaker Matt Ridley who has been studying and writing about genetics, society and evolution for decades. He outlines in this fascinating TEDTalk that trading ideas is essential to our survival.
Ridley's website is the Rational Optimist and this is his TEDTalk from 2010 where explains why our ideas have sex.
Kneale Mann
October 3, 2010
Making History on The Social Web
If you are active in any of the online social channels, you have probably seen how fast a news story can spread. The death of Michael Jackson was reported on Twitter before CNN, the earthquake in Haiti was all over the social web as people tried to find and share correct information.
On Friday I received an email from someone about the Rick Sanchez rant on satellite radio where he dumped all over Jon Stewart then went on a racial tirade which got him fired from his gig at CNN. I quickly did a Google search and the screen was full of reports on the story, not all from “credible news sources". It was everywhere. The twitterstream was packed with comments and it was one of the top trending topics.
The 20th century was the culmination of hundreds of years of technology that gave us the one-to-one and one-to-many media models. The Internet has given us the many-to-many model.
Each of us is able to produce and broadcast a message and create a conversation or join another one midstream and contribute as much as anyone else in the group.
Exciting times.
Author, consultant, visionary and speaker Clay Shirky brilliantly points out that the tools we use become social interesting when they get technologically boring. He adds “It isn’t when the shiny tools show up that their uses start permeating society, it is when everyone is able to take them for granted.”
Here’s more from his TEDTalk last June. [video]
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image credit: TED
On Friday I received an email from someone about the Rick Sanchez rant on satellite radio where he dumped all over Jon Stewart then went on a racial tirade which got him fired from his gig at CNN. I quickly did a Google search and the screen was full of reports on the story, not all from “credible news sources". It was everywhere. The twitterstream was packed with comments and it was one of the top trending topics.
The 20th century was the culmination of hundreds of years of technology that gave us the one-to-one and one-to-many media models. The Internet has given us the many-to-many model.
Each of us is able to produce and broadcast a message and create a conversation or join another one midstream and contribute as much as anyone else in the group.
Exciting times.
Author, consultant, visionary and speaker Clay Shirky brilliantly points out that the tools we use become social interesting when they get technologically boring. He adds “It isn’t when the shiny tools show up that their uses start permeating society, it is when everyone is able to take them for granted.”
Here’s more from his TEDTalk last June. [video]
knealemann
October 2, 2010
The Intelligence of Coffee
I often meet colleagues and clients in coffee shops, perhaps you do as well. It has become the cliché of our time to meet for coffee. The drink has become the conduit for gathering and discussing and sharing.
Let’s meet for coffee. Let’s grab a coffee some time. But according to author Steven Johnson, there is much more to coffee than we may know. [video]
image credit: TED
September 3, 2010
The Physics of Marketing
Where science and behavior converge.
Far too often you can read diatribes and monologues about branding this and positioning that and little of it has a stitch to do with satisfying the customer.
When asked about their tastes and behavior, most people lie and those lies become the basis for decisions. One bad week, one bad post, one bad comment can dismantle decades of managing a brand.
We live in a self-publishing world where anyone with a connection and a keyboard can share their thoughts, ideas and opinions.
Dan Cobley is director of marketing in the UK for a little company you may have heard about called Google. Through the persistence of a teacher who taught him that physics is cool, Dan went on to get a degree from Oxford.
Here Cobley explains how his passions for marketing and physics are much more related than you may think. [video]
knealemann
Create experiences not campaigns.
image credit: ted
Far too often you can read diatribes and monologues about branding this and positioning that and little of it has a stitch to do with satisfying the customer. When asked about their tastes and behavior, most people lie and those lies become the basis for decisions. One bad week, one bad post, one bad comment can dismantle decades of managing a brand.
We live in a self-publishing world where anyone with a connection and a keyboard can share their thoughts, ideas and opinions.
Dan Cobley is director of marketing in the UK for a little company you may have heard about called Google. Through the persistence of a teacher who taught him that physics is cool, Dan went on to get a degree from Oxford.
Here Cobley explains how his passions for marketing and physics are much more related than you may think. [video]
knealemann
Create experiences not campaigns.
image credit: ted
August 29, 2010
Do Your Ideas Procreate?
Imagination is what separates us from any other species.
British author and speaker Matt Ridley is a interesting guy who has been studying and writing about genetics, society and evolution for decades. He outlines in this fascinating TEDTalk that trading ideas is centuries older than farming. Idea sharing is essential to human life.
Matt's website - the Rational Optimist - has plenty to digest.
More from the TED site on Matt’s talk:
knealemann
Create experiences not campaigns.
image credit: TED
British author and speaker Matt Ridley is a interesting guy who has been studying and writing about genetics, society and evolution for decades. He outlines in this fascinating TEDTalk that trading ideas is centuries older than farming. Idea sharing is essential to human life.
Matt's website - the Rational Optimist - has plenty to digest.
More from the TED site on Matt’s talk:
“It is our habit of trade, idea-sharing and specialization that has created the collective brain which set human living standards on a rising trend. This, he says, "holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead - because ideas are having sex with each other as never before."
knealemann
Create experiences not campaigns.
image credit: TED
June 30, 2010
TED2010: Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson did an 18 minute talk at TED2006 and to date, four million of us have watched it. As a lifelong educator, his subject was about the fact that the education system is killing creativity.
Ken returned to TED for another talk this year and to no surprise, he was brilliant. He talks about a crisis that needs our attention immediately.
@knealemann
Helping you integrate all you do with all you do.
Ken returned to TED for another talk this year and to no surprise, he was brilliant. He talks about a crisis that needs our attention immediately.
@knealemann
Helping you integrate all you do with all you do.
June 21, 2010
Is Your Company Happy?
Have you taken a moment lately to think about all the good stuff in your life? How about those around you, those who work and create with you, keep going.
Time is precious and success is not a number at the bottom of a general ledger or counted by possessions.
We need to run our companies with us humans in mind. It is the sole reason there is often unrest and unhappiness and bars filled with commiseration at night.
This is a TEDTalk featuring Chip Conley which was posted today.
Find twenty minutes and watch this.
Then share it with everyone.
@knealemann
Helping you integrate all you do with all you do.
Time is precious and success is not a number at the bottom of a general ledger or counted by possessions.
We need to run our companies with us humans in mind. It is the sole reason there is often unrest and unhappiness and bars filled with commiseration at night.
This is a TEDTalk featuring Chip Conley which was posted today.
Find twenty minutes and watch this.
Then share it with everyone.
@knealemann
Helping you integrate all you do with all you do.
March 13, 2009
Seth Sums It Up In 38 Words
Even the casual observer of marketing, advertising, public relations and business knows Seth Godin. His daily blog – which just surpassed post number 3,000 is the #1 marketing blog in the world.
His best selling books include: Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us, Purple Cow, Meatball Sundae, The Dip, Small Is The New Big, All Marketers Are Liars, Free Prize Inside, The Big Red Fez, Survival Is Not Enough, and Permission Marketing.
Seth is real, he tells it straight, and he shares constantly. And today he wrote a blog that was 38 words and that’s all he needed.
Seth wrote
The closer you get to someone, something, some brand, some organization, the harder it is to demonize it, objectify it or hate it. So, if you want to not be hated, open up. Let people in. Engage. Interact.
It has inspired many who do this on a regular basis to shorten the message and get to the point.
So I will today...
Share often. Build relationships. Stop selling. Ask questions. Wait for the answers. Listen more. Empathize. Solve don’t tell.
What are your words?
@knealemann
TED2003
His best selling books include: Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us, Purple Cow, Meatball Sundae, The Dip, Small Is The New Big, All Marketers Are Liars, Free Prize Inside, The Big Red Fez, Survival Is Not Enough, and Permission Marketing.
Seth is real, he tells it straight, and he shares constantly. And today he wrote a blog that was 38 words and that’s all he needed.
Seth wrote
The closer you get to someone, something, some brand, some organization, the harder it is to demonize it, objectify it or hate it. So, if you want to not be hated, open up. Let people in. Engage. Interact.
It has inspired many who do this on a regular basis to shorten the message and get to the point.
So I will today...
Share often. Build relationships. Stop selling. Ask questions. Wait for the answers. Listen more. Empathize. Solve don’t tell.
What are your words?
@knealemann
TED2003
January 31, 2009
Thanks TED
I love TED. I love my TED Player. TED has not paid me a cent to say this. I happily tell everyone I meet about my love affair with TED. I have yet to attend a conference with TED.
It was one of those nights where sleep was brief and the mind was busy. So the day began with a fresh pot of delicious coffee and my pal TED.
Two on the menu this morning were from Dan Gilbert who is a Harvard professor. Dan is personable, funny and thought provoking.
How much would you pay for a Big Mac?
Here's some perspective we all need these days.
km
It was one of those nights where sleep was brief and the mind was busy. So the day began with a fresh pot of delicious coffee and my pal TED.
Two on the menu this morning were from Dan Gilbert who is a Harvard professor. Dan is personable, funny and thought provoking.
How much would you pay for a Big Mac?
Here's some perspective we all need these days.
km
