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TEDxAbuDhabiU this is going to be great!

I have been to a couple of TED events now and organized a couple of TEDx events, with some help. I even spoke at the last TEDxDubai event. But I have never been as excited about a TED event as I am about TEDxAbuDhabiU, really. It isn’t the speakers that have me so excited, although [...]

Get out of your comfort zone much?

All I can say is imagine doing this? [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19470246[/vimeo] 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

New Way of investing?

What if we thought about investing in ideas different? Presumed Abundance might just be that group. The idea is simple.  Fund it forward! How It Works We provide startup capital for your company. Instead of buying equity for ourselves, the equity we purchase goes directly into our angel fund. Upon a liquidity event (merger/acquisition or [...]

You can help!

This is very unusual for me, to post a letter from a friend in my BLOG, but I know so many of you are looking for ways to engage with global communities for change. Read this and please do what you can! Hi, My wife Masarat and I are heading next week to Dhaka, Bangladesh [...]

TEDx / still relevant?

I have been part of 3 TEDx events since I went to TED2009. TEDxDubai in its 1st incarnation was an amazing achievement. A team of 5 with 10,000 Dirhams cash managed to ignite the imagination of Dubai bringing together 1000 participants and a stellar cast of speakers. And the whole thing was done with no [...]

Too Much TED?

I get a lot of tweets and email messages asking me if it is possible to have too many TED events in Dubai. In one word, NO! TED is all about engaging a community in a conversation. I don’t think we actually talk to each other enough about ideas and TED has arrived on the [...]

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