28 Posts found for Source: TED Conferences LLC

Global consumer strategist Aparna Bharadwaj shares a fascinating glimpse at under-the-radar affinities that transcend cultures and borders — from the way people snack in China and Saudi Arabia to how people shop for clothes in the US and Russia. “There are patterns where you least expect them,” she says – and paying attention to them just might bring the world a little bit closer.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Aparna Bharadwaj | Sources: Boston Consulting Group (BCG), TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Customer Related, International, Marketing / Sales

How much do you get paid? How does it compare to the people you work with? You should know, and so should they, says management researcher David Burkus. In this talk, Burkus questions our cultural assumptions around keeping salaries secret and makes a compelling case for why sharing them could benefit employees, organizations and society.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Burkus | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why? Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways — for men and women, new grads and midcareer workers.

Editor’s Note: Something didn’t really resonate … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Susan Colantuono | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tom Wujec | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today’s businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit’s warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for “smart simplicity.” (Rule One: Understand what your colleagues actually do.)

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Yves Morieux | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers—and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Margaret A. Heffernan | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Organizational Behavior

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Richard Wilkinson | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Economics

In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Clay Shirky | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn’t just money. But it’s not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Dan Ariely | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Barry Schwartz | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Rachel Botsman talks about the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live.

Editor’s Note: I think it should be interesting to re-watch this video in 5, 10, 15 years and see how the topic unfolds.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Rachel Botsman | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Economics, IT / Technology / E-Business

It may seem that we’re living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We’re not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there’s a delta between perception and reality in a world that’s maybe not so hyperconnected after all.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Economics, International

James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system — say, a swarm of birds — is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: James B. Glattfelder | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Economics

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Richard Wilkinson | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Economics, International

It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and hilarious examples.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Rory Sutherland | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Management

Neuroscientist Tali Sharot comes on stage to discuss the “optimism bias.” It’s a topic that she’s been studying in her lab and she claims that 80% of us experience it. “It” being the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to us. As she puts it: “we’re more optimistic than realistic, and we’re oblivious about it.”

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tali Sharot | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tony Robbins | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Philip Zimbardo | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

It’s become increasingly obvious that the dismal science of economics is not as firmly grounded in actual behavior as was once supposed. In “Predictably Irrational,” Dan Ariely tells us why. … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Dan Ariely | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn’t have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Nic Marks | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Economics, Personal Development, Social Responsibility (ESG)