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Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend (a TED Talk)
Ted talks – Kelly_McGonigal: How_to_make_stress_your_friend Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see…
Read MoreChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (a TED Talk)
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story – Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Read MoreKen Robinson says Schools Kill Creativity (a TED Talk)
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity – Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple…
Read MoreLeading the Revolution
“Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life” by Gary Hamel. Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and coauthor of “Competing for the Future”, the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now delivers an agenda for the twenty-first century with the national bestseller, “Leading the…
Read MoreLeading at the Cusp of Change (a Prezi)
“Leading at the Cusp of Change” is the presentation we shared at the Washington State Nonprofit Conference on May 11, 2012. It’s about the intersection of leadership and adaptive change, VUCA and VUCA prime, our change model, and what you can do to better prepare yourself and your organization for the future.
Read MoreThinking in Systems: A Primer
Thinking in Systems: A Primer – by Donella H. Meadows In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth–the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet– Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in…
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