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This is a must see talk from this year! About this talk As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized [...]

TEDActive Day 3

TED is leaving my mind spinning and that is a great thing to be able to say. I must also say that the best thing about a TED conference remains the people you meet. Here are my audio updates for the last 2 days. And here is Day 4 of the experience Day 2 of [...]

Get out of your comfort zone much?

All I can say is imagine doing this? Maybe we all need to get out of our comfort zone once in a while! And we need to get out of our comfort zone to the extreme!

Essential TIPS from TED…

A few lists from the TEDx workshop that apply as much to a TED event as they do to any event you may be planning. Bruno Giussani on how to do a great TEDTalk have 1 idea and focus keep it short, 18 minutes is a ceiling make it fresh and new act as a [...]

TEDActive Starting…

Sunday at 8am the fun begins with the TEDx workshop. We pick up the conference bag in the morning but were teased with our badges and facebooks today. The badges are huge, the sponsor book a pocket guide and the facebook is fantastic! As I worked my way through immigration at LAX the immigration officer [...]

OLD School For My Ted Sharing.

TED is all about sharing ideas and I am all for that. But the TED experience is an odd thing because it is more than just listening to people tell a great story. The TED experience is also about grabbing onto the subtle nuance that happens in the space between the obvious. The problem with [...]

TED=Poetry in Motion

I am a TEDster, a TED aficionado, an idea spreader. Many people ask me what it is about TED that has grabbed my imagination to the point that it may have even become a game changer for me. For me TED is ideas. As an academic I live in the realm of ideas so that answer [...]

Who did what?

One of the greatest problem faced by any organization, unless it is a solo operation, is understanding the value of what people do. Too often we all play the ‘I did/You did’ game which is wholly destructive to any organization. And add to the above, ‘what I did is more valuable than what you did.’ At the [...]

Holding Inspiration

Finding inspiration is one thing and grabbing it, holding it, recording it and using it is a totally different thing. This TED talk really made me think hard about not just being inspired but using that inspiration. I have watched that talk a lot. And I have thought about what is being said and the [...]

Tony Deifell offers a reset.

I have done a lot of interviews on Nightline here in Dubai. Each interview has offered me something personally. But my conversation with Tony Deifell was nothing short of extraordinary. Tony offered up, in 45 minutes, the tools to look at what we are doing and move forward! Now this is not to suggest that [...]

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