- -: Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Us Miserable? - Petrea King
May 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/09/Is_the_Pursuit_of_Happiness_Making_Us_Miserable Petrea King, founder and CEO of The Quest for Life Foundation, argues the pursuit of happiness is making us all miserable. "Happiness is found in the present moment," she says. "That's where life is, lov...
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- -: Talent or Chance? The Luck of a 'Good Face'
October 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Journalist James Surowiecki examines the correlation between good looks and stature with success in business and leadership roles, as explored in the story about baseball player Billy Beane's "good face" in the Michael...
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- -: Bill Gates on Expertise: 10,000 Hours and a Lifetime of Fanaticism
May 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_politics Bill Gates responds to Malcolm Gladwell's theory that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. Apart from acknowledging luck, timing and an open mind, Gates suggests that a successful person survives many cycles...
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- -: The Key to Innovation? Asking the Right Questions
September 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/igniting_innovation Randy Komisar, partner at Kleiner Perkins, discusses the importance of intellectual honesty in creating a culture of innovation. He explains that being honest means admitting what you don't know, and admitting what you don't know a...
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- -: Tinkering: The Secret Trait of the Entrepreneur?
September 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/igniting_innovation John Seely Brown pinpoints the willingness to "tinker" as one of the key traits of an entrepreneurial learner and innovator. ----- ACT III: ...& THEN INVENTING THE FUTURE A provocative and inspiring view of the future Speakers:...
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- -: President Obama's Third Annual Back to School Speech
September 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Tells America's High School Students that They Are America's Future. September 28, 2011.
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Nelson Mandela: New Year Message by President Nelson Mandela for 1998
December 31, 1997 (over 26 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela sends a 1998 New Year Message. He sees the future of South Africa as filled with both challenge and hope. He talks about their recent achievements in economy, basic services, education, and crime. He states that for the country to succeed, all of us should share in ...
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Barack Obama: Necessity of Science
April 27, 2009 (about 15 years ago)President Barack Obama stresses the importance of science, research and technology to the economy of a nation - most importantly to the United States of America, where success is deeply rooted in the advancements of the sciences.
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Barack Obama: Barack Obama in Berlin
July 24, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Barack Obama speaks in Berlin about partnership between America and Europe as a means of achieving progress in the 21st century.
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Charles Leadbeater: Innovation
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Charles Leadbeater inroduces a way of making big success and savings by using consumers as co-developers in a company.
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