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Three Traps When Reinventing Your Company
This brief video shares advice for leaders on how to avoid mistakes that often trip up companies when they decide to move in a new strategic direction.
A corporate reinvention gone wrong can be the quickest path to organizational oblivion. How can leaders balance the tension between a market-driven need…
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3 rules to help you build a successful business
Have an idea you’re yearning to turn into a business? Julissa Prado, founder and CEO of Rizos Curls, explains how she was inspired by the Latino and immigrant communities she grew up in — and shares 3 principles that guide her in her work.
Julissa Prado is founded Rizos Curls, a clean hair care…
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How to build the 3D world of your dreams with just a text prompt
In his TED Talk, Kiran Bhat explores the transformative potential of generative AI in creating immersive 3D worlds using just text prompts. He opens by acknowledging how imagination has always driven innovation—from ancient myths to futuristic space travel. However, translating…
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Agility and Guardrails: What Toyota Learned
Can constraints actually boost agility? In this short video, MIT research scientist Nick van der Meulen shares lessons from Toyota.
The conventional wisdom is that policy overload can weigh large corporations down with bureaucratic red tape and that agility is the wheelhouse of the startup. It has…
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Ask Sanyin: Three Tips to Handle Tough Work Relationships
Is your relationship with a difficult coworker dragging your work life down? In this short video, learn how to significantly improve your work relationships.
Ever have a friction-filled relationship with a coworker? Most of us have had this experience at some point in our careers.…
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How to Build Teams of Innovators: Linda Hill
In this brief video, a leadership expert shares actionable advice on how using a strengths-based team approach can create a more innovative organization and engage employees.
Today’s fast-moving and competitive business environment demands a strong culture of innovation, but many traditional leadership…
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Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist …
Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the planet. She shares her story — and some animations, and some designs, and some infectious energy — in this charming talk.
Maya Penn is a Gen…
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Tapping Into the Hidden Consumer Demand for Sustainability
Sustainable solutions can be lucrative if companies work with a nuanced understanding of customer preferences.
The biggest misconception about sustainability is that it matters to only a small subset of consumers who are willing to pay a premium. This focus on premium strategies falsely…
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How to get people to do what you want
In his humorous and insightful TED Talk, director Barry Sonnenfeld shares nine unconventional rules he’s learned over a 40-year career in film and television to get people to do what you want — without force, conflict, or manipulation. Drawing on quirky anecdotes and behind-the-scenes experiences, he…
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The surprising habits of original thinkers
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are…
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