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[Consider] TED Talks to Share with Project Members!

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1. Google's Creative Ideas
Google Vice President Marissa Mayer explains 9 lessons about creative ideas and innovation learned from her experience at Google.

- Ideas come from everywhere.
- Share everything you can.
- Innovation is not about momentary perfection.
- Imagination loves constraints.

2. The Future of Business
A talk about mesh business (sharing-based business), a fundamentally transformative change in our relationship with things and situations in life. It's about beginning to consider specific moments of access to goods and services rather than ownership. Listen to Lisa Gansky's story about how we can approach this future, from music to cars.

3. Zuckerberg's Hiring Criteria
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg talks about his two criteria for hiring people:
First, the intelligence the person possesses
Second, passion and support for what we do

4. Dan Pink - The Puzzle of Motivation
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.

5. Tim Brown - Creativity and Play
IDEO CEO Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one you probably shouldn't).

6. Derek Sivers - How to Start a Movement
With a fun video of a "shirtless dancing man," Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. The first follower is an underestimated form of leadership.

7. Simon Sinek - How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for inspiring leadership — starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"

8. Seth Godin - The Tribes We Lead
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. He explains how to lead them.

9. Clay Shirky - How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World
Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. He talks about how people are starting to use that surplus to do great things.

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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