tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:32:14 +0000"A beginner's mind takes you where you need to go" (traditional Zen saying)http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/blog.aspnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)Blogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-7655199151304027906Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:32:00 +00002010-03-06T10:32:14.277Z<div class='posterous_autopost'>mick leadership blog Employee Engagement Drives Loyalty and Business Performance at World’s.. <a href="http://bit.ly/bvLZV0">http://bit.ly/bvLZV0</a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12822635">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-7655199151304027906?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/03/untitled_06.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-947351607685494910Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:39:00 +00002010-03-02T12:17:19.486ZretentionrecessionMarshall Goldsmithtalent<div class="posterous_autopost"><a href="http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/?gclid=CJ3B3YbQoocCFQ5-MAodgRii9g" target="_blank"><strong>Marshall Goldsmith</strong></a> is an old friend of mine – and I always enjoy reading his ideas. This one popped into my reader courtesy of the <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/goldsmith/2010/02/how_to_keep_good_employees_in.html" target="_blank"><strong>Harvard Business Review</strong></a>. <p>“<em>As we make our way through the challenges of the global economic crisis, high-impact performers are in demand. I’m speaking here of the indispensible workers who are willing to do what it takes to help the company succeed even in the most difficult of times. Those who pick up the slack when the organization is forced to cut back; those whose ideas save time, money, and effort; those with a positive outlook who help keep the organization moving forward.</em></p>.. <a href="http://bit.ly/cwYJMG">http://bit.ly/cwYJMG</a><br /><br /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12567081">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-947351607685494910?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/03/untitled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-3083794347008856945Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:25:00 +00002010-03-02T12:19:53.801ZcreativityideasElizabeth Gilbertseth godininnovation<p>from <strong>mick's leadership blog<br /></strong></p><strong></strong><strong>Creativity is not always tortured genius, but it is about living right now</strong><p>I’ve just been reading <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/genius-is-misunderstood-as-a-bolt-of-lighting.html" target="_blank"><strong>Seth’s blog – his latest post is about genius</strong></a>. His most telling point – that “Genius is actually the eventual public recognition of dozens (or hundreds) of failed attempts at solving a problem” rather than some lightning bolt of insight.</p>This led me to wander around for a while, and I came back to <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html" target="_blank"><strong>Elizabeth Gilbert’s inspiring TED talk</strong></a> from 2009.<br /><p>She takes on the idea that creativity is intertwined with being a “tortured artist”. Telling the story of creativity and artistry since the time of the Greeks, via the renaissance, she brings the story up to date with Tom Waits. Here’s a portion of the transcript of Elizabeth’s talk:</p>... <strong>http://bit.ly/bsfQi6<br /><br /></strong><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-3083794347008856945?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-8044682892935291394Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:17:00 +00002010-02-27T19:03:54.203ZRoyal Society of Artsculturesexualityvaluesintelligence<div class="posterous_autopost">From <span style="font-weight: bold;">mick's leadership blog</span><br /><br />Interesting summary on <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>CNN</strong></a> about research from the <strong>Social Psychology Quartely</strong>. Written by <strong>Elizabeth Landau</strong>. <p>Essentially the study suggests that more intelligent people are more likely to adopt new preferences and values. But it also says that intelligence does not correlate with values that are shaped by evolution over the millennia.</p> <p>“<strong>Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds</strong>."</p><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/b8lQXZ">http://bit.ly/b8lQXZ</a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12419838">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-8044682892935291394?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5124322418415344316Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:50:00 +00002010-02-25T06:14:09.205ZPewculturesocietyresearchvaluesAmerica<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><strong>Pew Research Report on the Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change</strong>.</p> <p>Insightful new research from the <a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/751/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change" target="_blank"><strong>Pew Research Center on “The Millennials”. </strong></a></p> <p>It is a fascinating report. And, whilst the Pew research reflects the great American “melting pot”, the findings seem to me to ring true for Europe, too.</p> <p>I found one item of particular note – that <strong>the young seem to be more tolerant of the status quo than their elders</strong>. If you dig into the report, it seems that there is more tolerance of the generation gap than there was in the 1960’s, for example.</p> <p>... <a href="http://bit.ly/9GqiYJ">http://bit.ly/9GqiYJ</a></p><a href="http://bit.ly/9GqiYJ"></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12265927">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5124322418415344316?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-6788314563844928350Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:12:00 +00002010-02-24T07:17:58.922ZToyotaleadership<div class="posterous_autopost">from <span style="font-weight: bold;">mick's leadership blog</span><br /><br />Tragedy at Toyota and How Not to Lead in Crisis by Bill George.<br /><p><strong>This is not a crisis of faulty brakes and accelerators, but a leadership crisis.</strong> During Chrysler’s 1980s crisis, CEO Lee Iacocca took charge, restoring consumer trust and prosperity. When General Motors emerged from bankruptcy last summer, Chairman Ed Whitacre became the trustworthy, determined face of the company’s comeback.</p> Toyota needs a credible leader with a strong, cohesive plan.<br /><br />... <a href="http://bit.ly/b1yQl2">http://bit.ly/b1yQl2</a><br /><br /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12209616">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-6788314563844928350?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-7108165176999114762Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:19:00 +00002010-02-24T07:17:48.576Zstrategyexecutionleadership<div class="posterous_autopost">from <span style="font-weight: bold;">mick's leadership blog</span><br /><br />Strategic thinking is most important for leaders in 2010 say the top 20 Companies<br /><br />... <a href="http://bit.ly/98yjLP">http://bit.ly/98yjLP</a><br /><br /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12194352">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-7108165176999114762?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-1709193808316081387Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:39:00 +00002010-02-24T07:18:13.935ZLeaderValues<div class="posterous_autopost"><span style="font-weight: bold;">from mick's leadership blog</span><br /><br />LeaderValues chosen in International Association of Businesses Top 10: We are very pleased to note that the <strong>International Association of Businesses</strong>, a non-profit dedicated to helping small business, <a href="http://iabusa.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/top-10-management-blogs/" _mce_href="http://iabusa.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/top-10-management-blogs/" target="_blank"><strong>has chosen LeaderValues as one of their top 10 sites for leadership</strong></a>. <p>In the awards preamble, IBA notes that the “<em>International Association of Businesses recommends these management blogs for the TOP 10 Management blogs for 2010. Management is a continual learning process that occurs in a multitude of categories. For our purposes, we are looking at the TOP 10 Management Blogs which include .. 8 sub categories.</em>”</p> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12141366">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-1709193808316081387?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-2433779715333828361Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:37:00 +00002010-02-21T21:14:34.446Zideasbookspublishing<div class="posterous_autopost">mick's leadership blog<br /><br />"The positive digital future of books and publishing". The surprising conclusion - "With inventory expense, shipping, and returns eliminated, readers will pay less, authors will earn more, and book publishers, rid of their otiose infrastructure, will survive and may prosper."<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/9yYgN7">http://bit.ly/9yYgN7</a><br /><br /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12066199">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-2433779715333828361?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-4480660746701741520Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:06:00 +00002010-02-21T21:13:17.268Zideasleadership<div class="posterous_autopost"><span style="font-weight: bold;">mick's leadership blog </span><br /><br />Jaron Lanier – “You Are Not A Gadget” – Video from RSA.<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/bpcllO">http://bit.ly/bpcllO</a><br /><br /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ping.fm/">Ping.fm</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/12036175">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-4480660746701741520?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/untitled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-8333510557204197322Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:28:00 +00002010-02-19T11:28:15.025ZZizekideasPhilosophypolitics<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>mick's leadership blog ... Slavoj Zizek - the most dangerous philosopher in the West"? ... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yfvadn8">http://tinyurl.com/yfvadn8</a> Žižek is arguing that we should not repeat the historic mistake of believing a current ideology is the right one for ever. Not everything was bad about Communist thought, and we should do more to politicize decisions in society.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/slavoj-zizek-the-most-dangerous-philosopher-i">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-8333510557204197322?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/slavoj-zizek-most-dangerous-philosopher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-6520696553624459175Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:17:00 +00002010-02-18T00:17:39.235ZculturetechnologyNathan MyhrvoldideasBill GatessocietyTEDboomers<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>We had a great debate last evening about "the boomer generation", and how they compared with today's young people. We drew a few contextual differences: <strong>The boomers were the first to see such massively broad social changes</strong> <strong>affecting everyone in their generation</strong>, and not just a select few. Here's a mix from different parts of the developed world:</p> <ul> <li>equality of race and sex became a real goal</li> <li>colonialism started to die</li> <li>the contraceptive pill made sex free and easy</li> <li>tertiary education became broadly available</li> <li>mass consumerism was everywhere</li> <li>"own your own home" arrived, via cheap mortgages paid from increasingly disposable income</li> <li>the military draft ended - after centuries of being the way that armies were raised</li> <li>a "cold" not "hot" war was the military paradigm ...</li> <li>... aided by the early forms of the European Union, which supplanted centuries of war with less harmful bureaucracy and red tape</li> <li>air travel for leisure became a normal activity, available to ever more people</li> <li>social support programs were broadly available in health and education ...</li> <li>... yet there was still little apparent change in the "age of dying" - retirement was still expected at 65 for men ... and death by 75 or so.</li> </ul> <p>This all clearly left the boomers as both a blessed and marked generation. <strong>Despite today's upheavals, and the recent financial mess, is there the same breadth and complexity of social change today - and what does it mean? </strong>We have more and more technology - and business globalization is a "done deal". But I'd argue that both had roots or parallels in the boomer generations, yet are not surrounded by the broader social changes noted above. There were telephones in every home, colour TV, cheap cars, supermarkets. Even in music, I've heard it argued that there will never be another Beatles. Musicians no longer make money on albums - they make it on concerts. The <strong>Beatles </strong>reached the entire world through albums, worked at a pace rarely seen by today's bands, yet stopped touring ages before they split. I'd suggests that many of the trends we see today have roots in that boomer generation, with three additions:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Today we all belong to non-geographic tribes</strong> - not just the Facebook tribe but the micro-Facebook tribes. Boomers were told what their country and therefore tribe was. Now we all chose tribes to suit the mood, it seems. Technology makes this possible, and it will only accelerate. Yet, I'd argue that the tribes are still just a natural implication of the 60's attitudes and aspirations, now made possible by technology.</li> <li><strong>The "I deserve it now, and then I'll move on" generation</strong>. Boomers were just crawling out of World War II, and had to be careful, and rebuild for the future. Yet, again, isn't this just the obvious next step in the consumer society? Like it or not, the boomers started this trend, even if they don't like what they see now.</li> <li><strong>Technology development has reached critical and sustainable mass</strong> - there's more power in my Blackberry than room sized machines had in the 60's. The boomers can't take all the credit for this, but technology in the home was one of their themes. Of course, we generate more knowledge in a year than generations did in times gone by. Research and development is so diverse and broadly democratized that virtually anything may be invented anywhere by anyone these days. I heard <strong>Bill Gates</strong>, private individual, talk about how he planned to change the way we power this planet at TED last week. He's not waiting for a State-driven Manhattan project. His buddy <strong><a href="http://www.intellectualventures.com/bio.aspx?id=e26036be-aefc-4333-98da-822bb698318e">Nathan Myhrvold </a></strong>was happily shooting down mosquitoes with lasers (maybe he should run "Star Wars"?). Oh, and aren't they both boomers?</li> </ol> <p>Even if you don't fully accept these contextual premises, one critical implication is clear. <strong>The boomers have a stranglehold on the world's financial resources, and that is unlikely to shift short term. </strong>It's pretty clear that today's boomers will not be handing down all this capital to their kids.</p> <ul> <li>First, we all live a lot longer - and with the crunch that now exists on pensions, the boomers will spend what they have accumulated to survive until they die (at 90? 100? 110?).</li> <li>Second, the boomers are now being forced to financially care for both their kids and their parents - who also are living longer ...</li> </ul> <p>Here's an extract from today's <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3cc07bc-1b3c-11df-953f-00144feab49a.html" target="_blank"><strong>Financial Times </strong></a>... "<em>... a <strong>third of the value</strong> of all UK pension benefits was held by those aged 55 to 64, the boomer generation that is approaching retirement. Those aged between 45 and 54 held a further <strong>quarter</strong> of the &pound;3,500bn of pension benefits. The aggregate value of housing wealth held by those aged 50 to pension age &ndash; 60 for women and 65 for men &ndash; was &pound;1,280bn, more than twice the housing wealth held by any other age group. The next wealthiest group were those between pension age and 75, whose housing wealth was &pound;600bn</em>." So, is it all doom and gloom for young people today? On the surface, yes. It is most unlikely that Government will be able to do much about this. With rare exceptions, Government "sweeps up" after the fact, rather than get ahead of the curve. And a good part of that is the boomer's fault, who are still very unlikely to accept being told what to do by the state - they will use their considerable political and financial power to exert peaceful regime change at every election. <strong>Yet there are equally clear causes for major optimism.</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>Kids are smart and will adapt - </strong>they, like all previous generations will innovate and thrive in ways that us older folks will have no inkling about.</li> <li><strong>Kids will be able pursue their dreams with more freedom</strong>. They have more information available, more education, more choices, more communication, more openness in society. Yes, we have domestic terrorism, and that is a relatively new and deadly threat. But we do not have the spectre of mass annihilation. If the Russian or Chinese nuked the US or Europe, all their money and markets would go with the nukes. Hardly a likely prospect - and certainly not the state of affairs in the Cold War.</li> <li><strong>Kids will live longer</strong> ... and the boomers will just die;-)</li> </ol> <p><strong>Thoughts? </strong></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/baby-boomers-versus-the-rest-are-you-a-pessim">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-6520696553624459175?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/baby-boomers-versus-rest-are-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-2911067017055097885Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:54:00 +00002010-02-15T17:54:11.728ZSarah LacyElephantsChris AndersonTEDScobleizerRobert ScobleSteve CaseSarah Silverman<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4350229593_602596eac0.jpg" height="196" alt="TED" width="295" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" /></p> <p>I was very taken with this post from <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/" target="_blank"><strong>"Scobleizer " (Robert Scoble)</strong></a> about <a href="http://www.ted.com" target="_blank"><strong>TED</strong></a>.</p> <p>My wife and I are big fans of <a href="http://www.ted.com" target="_blank"><strong>TED</strong></a>, as we love its heady mixture of intellectual content, arts ("Technology Entertainment Design") and, dare I say it, fun and community.</p> <p>But I realise that it has its detractors. I've heard it described as a "<em><strong>place where hippies with too much money go</strong></em>". Then again, I've also heard it described as <em><strong>"one of the most thought provoking events / movements on the planet</strong></em>".</p> <p>And of course today there is now an <strong><a href="http://gawker.com/5471654/zing-sarah-silverman-shows-why-you-should-never-twitter-fight-a-comedian" target="_blank">old fashioned "flame war" </a></strong>going on between (on one side) comedian and TED speaker <strong>Sarah Silverman</strong> and (on the other) <strong>Steve Case</strong> and (TED curator)&nbsp; <strong>Chris Anderson</strong>. She caused an interesting debate about subject matter, language etc. [my take - what would you expect, folks ... it's what she loved for ... ] which Chris compounded with a tweet that got wide coverage.</p> <p>Hype, Hype all around.</p> <p>So, when I opened my mail this morning, I see that Scobleizer's post ("<a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/" target="_blank"><em><strong>The Elephants in the Room at TED</strong></em></a>") is being re-tweeted all over web. And here's why. It is perceptive, objective and, for me, completely "on the money" (pardon the pun, given the comment about rich hippies).</p> <p>What did he say? Here's the first few paras from his post .. then read the <strong><a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/" target="_blank">rest here</a></strong>.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"<em>Larry Page says hi, we say thanks for the phone! First, let&rsquo;s get the elephant out of the way so we can talk about more important things. What is the elephant? No, it&rsquo;s not Larry Page, co-founder of Google, seen above waving to the audience at <strong><a href="http://www.ted.com" target="_blank">TED</a> </strong>after he gave them all a free Nexus One.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>So, what is the elephant? That TED costs $6,000 and is hard to get into (next year&rsquo;s TED is already sold out, for instance). They never give away more than 15 press passes, too, which means that most of the world&rsquo;s press corp can&rsquo;t get in. This always pisses off people, just as it did to <strong><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/09/ted-now-with-more-elitism/" target="_blank">Sarah Lacy, writer at TechCrunch</a></strong>.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I don&rsquo;t have $6,000 and I doubt I&rsquo;ll get invited next year for free and, even if I could gather $6,000, it&rsquo;s sold out for next year anyway.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>Freaking elitists! </strong></em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>But, let&rsquo;s take the elephant head on: rich people can afford things you and I can&rsquo;t. I can&rsquo;t afford a Ferrari either. Even though I definitely appreciate them. I can&rsquo;t afford a private plane, even though when I&rsquo;ve gotten a ride in one I&rsquo;ve always appreciated them and can see why I&rsquo;d want one. I can&rsquo;t afford an original Ansel Adams&rsquo; print, either, even though I am a huge fan and would love to have one.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>So, let&rsquo;s turn it around. You should know that in 2008 I took a similar stance to Sarah&rsquo;s. That TED is unattainable for most people, and that it&rsquo;s a closed society, etc. What did I do about it? I went to BIL, a free event that goes on at TED. I will attend that again next year because I seriously doubt that I&rsquo;ll be able to get into TED. But I am trying to go one further, I will try to get the money together to buy BIL a video feed from inside TED.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>But since attending I&rsquo;ve changed my stance from the one I had in 2008. What is the one now? Jealous people should just keep their mouths shut. And I&rsquo;ll include me in that stance.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>Truth is, TED has opened up its content to the world</strong>. More than 500 talks have now been shared [free - mick] on <strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks">TED Talks</a>.</strong></em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>On the TED stage I saw that they had hundreds of events where the live feed was broadcast</strong>, including many into Silicon Valley (several VCs and entrepreneurs invited me to view TED with them at their houses, or work offices). Rackspace bought the feed too and lots of my coworkers were talking with me about the talks. So, getting access to the content might not be attainable by everyone in real time, but is certainly attainable eventually by everyone.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The funny thing is just a couple of weeks ago Sarah Lacy was at an exclusive venture capital event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I wasn&rsquo;t invited. Neither were you, probably. Did she disclose the elitism of this event? No way. Does she disclose all the closed parties or events she gets invited to that me and you don&rsquo;t get invited to? No way. One rule of closed parties is you don&rsquo;t Tweet about them or you don&rsquo;t get invited back.</em>"</p> <p>Bravo - and onto <strong>TEDGlobal</strong> in Oxford this summer ...</p> <p>Read the rest of <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/" target="_blank"><strong>Scobleizer's post here</strong>.</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted-an-interesti">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-2911067017055097885?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/elephants-in-room-at-ted-interesting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-8260610156196401761Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:56:00 +00002010-02-14T18:56:20.241ZSimma LiebermannLaura LiswoodLeaderValuesBarry A. DoublesteinnewslettervaluesleadershipVictoria Yates<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://www.leader-values.com/Images%20newsletter/Confucius.jpg" border="0" alt="Confucius" /></p> <p>Click here to see <strong><a href="http://www.leader-values.com/Content/newsletter2.asp?NewsletterID=93" target="_blank">this month's newsletter ...<br /></a></strong></p> <p>It features ...</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Confucius</strong> - a biography by <strong>Victoria Yates</strong>, focusing on his social and moral philosophy, still appropriate today. </li> <li><strong>The Right Context: Using the Arts to Get Your Message Across</strong>, a thoughtful and well researched piece from Barry A. Doublestein. </li> <li><strong>The Imbalance of Work / Life Balance</strong>, based on <strong>Simma Liebermann</strong>'s 18 years of experience in the field. </li> <li>Lessons and Quotes </li> <li>Book review: "<em><strong>The Loudest Duck</strong></em>" by <strong>Laura Liswood.</strong> We think it's a must read! </li> </ul> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/leadervalues-february-newsletter-confucius-le">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-8260610156196401761?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/leadervalues-february-newsletter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-2342388378011971521Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:56:00 +00002010-02-14T11:56:11.876ZartWard ShelleyideasBrain Pickingscommunication<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><strong>How to visualize complex information has always been difficult</strong> - and today, with ever more information, it gets harder and harder. Given that communication is a critical skill (and asset) of leaders, this work seems to me be helpful and indeed at the leading edge.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wardshelley.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Ward Shelley</strong></a> (who I discovered through <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/data-visualization/" target="_blank"><strong>Brain Pickings</strong></a>) is a leading exponent of how to visualize the complex. He works over time (Who invented the Avant-Garde, The influences and impact of Frank Zappa, The story of the Beat Poets etc).</p> <p>It is far more than sketchy mind mapping - it is art in its own right, and has levels of detail which are both informative and astounding.</p> <p><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.wardshelley.com/paintings/newpaintings/whoavantgarde-v2main.jpg" height="184" align="left" alt="Ward Shelley" width="392" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" /></p> <p>To quote Ward:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>"It is the mutually formative effects of subject/mind and object/world that gives shape to the space that exists between them. These paintings are a record of this shaping process. They are about the struggle of form to express content in the cognitive space that exists between the Subject (us) and the Object (the world). If that cognitive space is a territory, these paintings are landscapes of that territory."</em><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Here's a painting that tracks "Who invented the Avant-Garde ...</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Please fully respect the copyright of Ward's work</strong> - I only post it here to help other people discover.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/ward-shelley-hand-painted-visualizations-via">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-2342388378011971521?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/ward-shelley-hand-painted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-4686988222183105339Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:19:00 +00002010-02-14T06:55:45.102ZeducationideasTEDleadershipSocial DevelopmentKen Robinson<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><strong>Ken Robinson</strong> was one of the last speakers at <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank"><strong>TED2010</strong></a> today. He was also one of the best, with a powerful yet simple message about change in the education system - valuing each of us for what we are, and not continuing with the "fast food, industrialised" approach we currently have. Each child is unique and should be treated as such.</p> <p>I thought it might be fun to <strong>copy a few tweets</strong> which give an idea of his key points (and the great audience response)</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@missrogue "Every day our children lay their dreams beneath our feet. We should tread lightly." Sir Ken Robinson #TED</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@brainpicker Sir Ken Robinson: "Our education system is impoverishing our spirits as much as fast food is depleting our bodies" #TED</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@brainpicker #TED Ken Robinson: It's not about scaling the solution to education, it's about a grassroots model of personalized solutions</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@TEDNews: Sir Ken Robinson at #TED: We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. Standardized, not customized to local circumstances</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@brainpicker #TED Sir Ken Robinson: People are often good at things they don't care for, but it's about passion. About what moves you.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@mickyates "A watch is a single function device - Ken Robinson's 20 year old daughter - so I don't want one" #TED</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@Michaelgnovak: RT @brainpicker: #TED Sir Ken Robinson's book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a MUST read <a href="http://is.gd/8jUKl">http://is.gd/8jUKl</a></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">@brainpicker "Human communities depend on a diversity of talent" Ken Robinson #TED #quote</p> <p>Here's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-robinson/imagine-a-world_b_415290.html" target="_blank"><strong>Ken's Huffington Post article from today</strong></a> on a slightly different - but related topic ..."Imagine a World Ending Slavery"</p> <p>"As part of the work we do in education, my wife Terry and I are committed to promoting a world in which all children live in freedom. This is why we support the Tronie Foundation in its work to ensure that all children live free of exploitation and have the opportunity to laugh, play and go to school. Many estimates agree that there are now about 27 million slaves in the world, more than at the height of institutionalized slavery in the 19th century. These are men, women and children held against their will with the threat of violence and little or no pay to do what ever their owners demand. Often these are what are known as 3D jobs -- dirty difficult and dangerous -- that few people with a free choice would tolerate. It's estimated that roughly half of all slaves are children.</p> <p>The good news is that there are people and organizations around the world fighting separately and together to end slavery in all of its forms. They range from government agencies to private foundations and the, often heroic, efforts of lone individuals. All are committed to ending practices that degrade all of us. One such organization is the Tronie Foundation.</p> <p>Rani and Tron are acting from first-hand experience. They found their separate ways to the United States as children. Rani was sold and resold into slavery as a child in India and then into illegal adoption in the USA. Tron was shipwrecked off the coast of Vietnam after his father's desperate attempt to save him from being abducted as a boy soldier. As adults and parents, they are now committed to the global struggle to offer the gift of freedom to every child.</p> <p>People around the world are ringing in a New Year. This could also be a new time of awakening. For the United States, freedom is a founding principle. Here especially we should support those who do so much to defend it on our behalf and for the children we all say we cherish. Take a look.</p><p> <object width="280" height="170"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i_geDys8Rz8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i_geDys8Rz8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" width="280" height="170"></embed> </object> </p><p><strong><a href="http://troniefoundation.org/donate.html" target="_blank">http://TronieFoundation.org/donate</a></strong></p><p><a href="http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/who" target="_blank"><strong>Biography extract from his webpage: </strong></a></p>"Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture.For twelve years, he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now Professor Emeritus. He has been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts." <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/sir-ken-robinson-educator-extraordinaire">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-4686988222183105339?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/sir-ken-robinson-educator.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5725863688960432280Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:34:00 +00002010-02-13T21:34:51.564ZideasTEDvaluesmoralityHarris<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><strong>A thoughtful summary of Sam Harris' excellent talk at TED this week. <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/universal-morality/" target="_blank">From Wired at Epicenter - by Kim Zetter</a> - from <a href="http://www.TED.com" target="_blank">TED </a></strong></p> <p><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/epicenter/2010/02/sam-harris-at-ted-2010-660x438.jpg" height="175" alt="Sam Harris" width="260" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" /></p> <p><strong>"In a well-meaning attempt to be tolerant of other cultures and religions we often blithely subvert our </strong></p> <p><strong>values and morality</strong>, says Sam Harris, the outspoken critic of blind religious faith. We do this because we think that questions about good and evil or right and wrong cannot be answered definitively. But they can, he told a rapt audience at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference Thursday &mdash; and they should.</p> <p>Harris is no stranger to the argument that, to put it more mildly than he might, religion does more harm than good. His 2005 New York Times bestseller The End of Faith attempted to draw a straight line from faith to human atrocities. His subsequent Letter to a Christian Nation took on the fierce pushback he received from writing his first book.</p> <p>So it should come as no surprise that Harris ran with this theme at TED, expanding his argument beyond the faithful to the secular-leaning. Scientists and academics, who are wedded to facts and empiricism, he said, do something different when they talk about morality. &ldquo;We value differences of opinion in a way that we don&rsquo;t in other areas,&rdquo; Harris said.</p> <p><strong>We know that there are fundamentally right and wrong answers to certain questions and issues, but do not trust our instincts</strong>, he said. These cast-aside tenets should respected and should be the basis of a universal morality, regardless of variations in cultures and belief.</p> <p><strong>Even within a single culture it&rsquo;s easy to fall into a morally relativistic trap</strong>, he said. For example, Harris noted, there are 21 states in the U.S. where it&rsquo;s legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board to the point of leaving bruises and breaking skin. The rationale for this behavior is the Biblical quote about sparing the rod and spoiling the child. The obvious question, Harris said, is whether it is actually a sound idea to subject children to pain and violence and public humiliation as a way of encouraging healthy emotional development and good behavior.</p> <p>He also pointed to the issue of women in the Muslim world who cover themselves in burqas.</p> <p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not talking about voluntary wearing of a veil. Women should be able to wear whatever they want,&rdquo; he said. But it&rsquo;s not an option when not wearing a burqa is a punishable offense. And even more importantly, he said, what of those cultures which punish a brutalized woman, where &ldquo;when a girl gets raped, her father&rsquo;s first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?&rdquo;</p> <p><strong>We should not feel constrained to assert what we think is an objective truth</strong> &mdash; that such behavior is wrong &mdash; for fear that it will be taken as subjective meddling or demagoguery, Harris argued. There is a moral imperative not to hold one&rsquo;s tongue but rather to speak out.</p> <p>&ldquo;Who are we not to say [that it's wrong]?&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;Who are we to pretend that we know so little about human well being that we have to be nonjudgmental about a practice like this?&rdquo; We can no longer respect and tolerate vast differences of opinion of what constitutes basic humanity any more than we can take seriously different opinions about how disease spreads or what it takes to make buildings and airplanes safe, Harris insisted.</p> <p><strong>We simply must converge on the answers we give to the most important question in human life</strong>, Harris concluded. And to do that we have to admit that there are answers."</p> <p><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/universal-morality/" target="_blank"><strong>Here's the original post on Wired</strong></a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/the-price-in-human-suffering-of-being-open-mi">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5725863688960432280?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/price-in-human-suffering-of-being-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-3384028451842105756Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:29:00 +00002010-02-13T11:29:59.296ZRSAEnlightenment"Matthew Taylor"<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/image/0005/54680/matthew-taylor-blog.gif" alt="Matthew Taylor" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" /></p> <p>I have been a Fellow of the <a href="http://www.thersa.org/home" target="_blank"><strong>Royal Society of Arts (RSA)</strong></a> for a while, and enjoy the combination of intellectual challenge with a rather laid back approach to things. Founded in a coffee shop in Covent Garden in 1754, by William Shipley, the RSA has a wealth of achievements&nbsp;and famous Fellows in its 250-year history.&nbsp; There are now about 27,000 Fellows across the world. The great thing is that it is not an old, stuffy kind of place - on the contrary, the house in John Adam St, London is a very chilled place to hang out, meet and chat. (No, this is not advert for the RSA - just how it is).</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/" target="_blank">Matthew Taylor</a></strong> took over as Chief Executive in 2006, and has worked hard to continue the process of renewal. In the past week, the RSA rolled out a new tagline for the brand and it's activities - "21st Century Enlightenment", which I like a lot.</p> <p><a href="http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><a>From Matthew's blog:</a> </strong></p> <p>"From this week, RSA Fellows and observers may start to notice a new strap line appearing on our website, at our events and in our materials: &lsquo;RSA: 21st century enlightenment&rsquo;.</p> <p>This has emerged from a pretty extensive conversation involving RSA staff and Trustees and is based on research with Fellows and partners. We wanted something broad enough to reflect our heritage and cover the range of our activities but also bold and interesting. Rather than spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on a face-lift our approach is, as it were, to drop the phrase into conversation and see what people make of it.</p> <p>The reason I liked 21st century enlightenment (despite having lots of ideas of my own) is that it has two meanings. The &lsquo;soft&rsquo; interpretation is simply that the RSA seeks to enlighten people as to the nature of the modern world and the best ideas to make that world better. With an amazing programme of lectures and events, not to mention the website and Journal, we can certainly claim to be meeting this objective.</p> <p>The &lsquo;hard&rsquo; interpretation is an unashamed championing of the values of the Enlightenment, the era in which the RSA itself was established.</p> <p>If I can be excused a very superficial reading of history, the idea I associate with the Enlightenment is this: <strong>There is a good way to live one&rsquo;s life but this ideal does not rely on rules handed down by kings or bishops but can be derived from an account of the kind of society in which we want to live and the kind of people we are and have the capacity to be.</strong></p> <p>In the past I have spoken about a social aspiration gap, defined as separating the kind of future most people say they want for society and the kind of future we are likely to build relying on current patterns of thought and behaviour. This gap can be seen to have three dimensions, three ways in which we the people must develop to close the gap. Collectively we must be more engaged, more self reliant and more pro-social.</p> <p>Personally, I believe there are many things wrong with modern society including our, as yet, inadequate response to climate change . These challenges help to make the case for us to live differently. But the case for 21st century enlightenment does not rely on these pressures. Being engaged, self reliant and altruistic is the way to live the good life in the good society.</p> <p>As someone who calls themselves progressive, I worry sometimes that people who share these values feel the best way they can make the case for a different way of living is to say we are in a crisis, whether environmental, social or economic. In this way progressives can sound very much like pessimists. On occasion, for example, environmentalists sound like they would be disappointed if a technology was invented which took carbon from the atmosphere without us all having to stop travelling and shopping.</p> <p><strong>The point for me is not that human beings have failed to achieve progress (who among us wish to return to a time when the average life expectancy was less than forty?) but that more is required of us and more can be achieved by us</strong>. This can be a century when the human race not only meets the challenges it has created for itself, but when it can aspire to reach a higher level of functioning with more and more of the human race feeling more able to discover and express their full capabilities. This is the ideal of 21st century enlightenment.</p> <p>I realise this all sounds rather trite. Whether the new strap-line works is more about what the RSA does than what it says about itself. This means our lectures, our research, the feel of our House and most of all the ways we support our Fellows to be a force for good. Of one thing I am reasonably confident; this is an account of our mission of which our founding fathers (they were all men) would approve."</p> <p>I couldn't agree more - and look forward to gettting increasingly involved with the RSA.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/rsa-21st-century-enlightenment-matthew-taylor">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-3384028451842105756?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/rsa-21st-century-enlightenment-matthew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5452921285267468197Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:54:00 +00002010-02-12T16:16:11.572ZTEDsignLauder<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://blog.ted.com/GaryLauder_TakeTurns_CC.jpg" alt="" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left;" height="196" width="137" /></p> <p>What's the best way to keep automobile traffic moving calmly and rationally through an intersection? It's not a stoplight, it's not a stop sign, and it's not a yield sign (who knows what to do at a yield?).</p> <p><strong>In Session 6, Gary Lauder suggests we "Take Turns."</strong></p> <p>Here's the street sign the world needs now. Half a stop and half a yield, the sign gives each driver a clear indication of how to behave. Below the red "Take Turns" shield is a small sign reading, "If Cars Are Waiting, Please Stop and Alternate." And if there are no cars waiting, just blow on through. (No more stopping at red lights at 4am, on a country road, when there's no one around for miles.)</p> <p>Lauder has registered the sign with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license -- so share it freely (just credit him, don't modify the sign, and don't sell it). And imagine a world where every street sign contains the word "Please."</p> <p><a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/" target="_blank"><strong>From Ted 2010</strong></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/maybe-a-new-street-sign-is-what-the-world-nee">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5452921285267468197?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/maybe-new-street-sign-is-what-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5505620605621728610Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:33:00 +00002010-02-12T13:43:47.821ZDavid BryneideasNathan MyhrvoldMcGonigalValerie Plame WilsonBerkeleyRothAmanda GefterHarrisSpecterStewart BrandTEDPisaniTED2010<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><em><strong><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/sex-lasers-and-suspended-animation-day-two-at-ted.php" target="_blank">From New Scientist's Culture Lab blog</a></strong> - by <strong>Amanda Gefter</strong>, Books &amp; Arts editor</em></p><p> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/Ted%20dancer.jpg"><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/assets_c/2010/02/Ted%20dancer-thumb-220x146-63187.jpg" alt="Ted dancer.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="146" width="220" /></a>"It's been <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/live-from-ted-2010part-1.php">another mind-boggling day</a> here at <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">TED 2010</a> in Long Beach, California, where some of the most innovative minds in science and technology have gathered to share their ideas to change the world.</p><p> The morning began with <a href="http://www.michaelspecter.com/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Michael Specter</a>, <em>New Yorker</em> writer and author of <em>Denialism</em> (Penguin, 2009), who is disheartened by irrational and dangerous public attitudes towards everything from vaccines to genetically modified foods. What people often don't understand, he said, is the dicey relationship between causation and correlation--even really smart people, like those in the audience at TED.</p><p> "How many of you took your Echinacea and antioxidants this morning, even though data shows they do nothing more than make your urine dark?" he asked, as the crowd laughed their admission. "Hey, I get it! You want to pay $20 billion a year for dark urine? I'm with you! Dark! Urine!"</p> <p>Philosopher and neuroscientist <a href="http://www.samharris.org/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Sam Harris</a> - known as one of the <a href="http://newatheists.org/">four horsemen of "new atheism"</a> - offered up a controversial but empowering argument against cultural relativism, claiming that unlike what religious people often claim, science <em>does</em> have something to say about morality.</p><p> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/harris2.jpg"><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/assets_c/2010/02/harris2-thumb-400x116-63197.jpg" alt="harris2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="143" width="216" /></a>"When we're talking about values, we're talking about facts," he argued. "Values reduce to facts about conscious experience." His comments resonated well with Specter's earlier complaint: "Everyone is entitled to their opinion," Specter had said, "even their opinion about progress. But you know what you're not entitled to? You're not entitled to your own facts."</p><p> Epidemiologist <a href="http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Elizabeth Pisani</a>, author of <em>The Wisdom of Whores</em> (W.W. Norton, 2009), offered a serious yet highly entertaining look at why populations most at risk for HIV--such as sex workers and intravenous drug users--make the health choices that they make, urging us to demand public health policies based on scientific evidence and common sense. She also had a message for Pope Benedict XVI, who last year told African leaders that condom distribution will worsen the AIDS epidemic, presumably because they will inspire people to go out and have more sex.</p><p> "I don't know if the Pope watches TED talks online," Pisani said, "but if you do, I've got news for you, Benedict. I carry condoms all the time and I never get laid!" She reached into her pockets and tossed some condoms into the crowd.</p><p> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/crowd.jpg"><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/assets_c/2010/02/crowd-thumb-220x146-63199.jpg" alt="crowd.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="142" width="214" /></a>Soon after, TED attendees were treated to a surprise talk by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Valerie Plame Wilson</a>, the former covert CIA operative who was outed by the Bush administration, who spoke about nuclear proliferation. "There is enough highly enriched uranium in the world to make 100,000 nuclear bombs," she said, and the only solution is to <a href="http://www.globalzero.org/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">get rid of it all</a>. This provided an interesting inroad to the afternoon's impassioned nuclear energy debate between <a href="http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/SB_homepage/Home.html">Stewart Brand</a> and <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/">Mark Jacobson</a>.</p><p>And the day just got more interesting from there. The fabulously entertaining game designer <a href="http://www.avantgame.com/bio.htm" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Jane McGonigal</a> began her talk with this statistic: online game enthusiasts now collectively spend 3 billion hours a week playing in virtual worlds. "Three billion hours a week is not enough to save the world," she said. "To survive the next century, we need to log at least 21 billion hours of game play every week."</p><p> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/jane.jpg"><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/assets_c/2010/02/jane-thumb-400x266-63191.jpg" alt="jane.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="141" width="213" /></a>McGonigal believes that gamers are "super-empowered hopeful individuals" who believe they can change the world. "The problem is that they believe they can change the <em>virtual</em> world, not the real world," she said. "That's what I'm trying to change. We need to make the real world more like the virtual world." She's trying to do just that by designing multi-player games that tackle real-world challenges like oil shortages and climate change.</p><p><a href="http://www.davidbyrne.com/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">David Byrne</a>, frontman from the Talking Heads, discussed his idea that throughout history, the creation of music has been informed by the architecture of the venues in which the music was to be performed--not unlike birds whose songs evolve to best fit their niche environments.</p><p> After a moving and venue-appropriate performance by one-man-band <a href="http://www.andrewbird.net/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Andrew Bird</a>, inventor <a href="http://www.intellectualventures.com/bio.aspx?id=e26036be-aefc-4333-98da-822bb698318e">Nathan Myhrvold</a> told the crowd about his endeavors to tackle the malaria crisis. Everyone has been trying to develop vaccines and distribute mosquito nets, he said, but why not also go after the mosquitoes themselves? In fact, why not shoot them out of thesky with lasers? He then put his pinky finger to his mouth, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil">Dr. Evil style</a>, before demonstrating a prototype of a laser that does exactly that.</p><p> And speaking of vaccines, epidemiologist <a href="http://www.mailmanschool.org/sphdir/pers.asp?ID=582">Seth Berkeley</a> is convinced that we are close to making a universal HIV vaccine and a universal flu vaccine thanks to his new approach of retro-vaccinology, a process where you start with the antibodies you want to produce and work backwards to find the right vaccine. New technologies will allow such vaccines to be made in simple <em>E. coli</em> cultures rather than the current cumbersome method of using live chicken eggs. After all, he said, what happens when an avian flu affects chickens?</p><p>To wrap up the evening, biologist <a href="http://labs.fhcrc.org/roth/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Mark Roth</a> talked a bit about sea monkeys. As every kid knows, when you order sea monkeys, they arrive in a bag that's been sitting on a shelf for who-knows-how-long, you toss them into some water and suddenly you have little shrimp swimming around. Everyone's amazed by what happens when you put them in the water, Roth said, but what I wanted to know was, what's going on in that bag?</p><p> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/roth.jpg"><img class="mt-image-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/assets_c/2010/02/roth-thumb-400x266-63195.jpg" alt="roth.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="145" width="219" /></a>Roth has been working on suspended animation and has achieved some remarkable things, deanimating mammals like mice until their hearts stop and their oxygen consumption hits rock bottom, then bringing them back to life where they are as healthy as ever before. Roth figured out that a winning combination of hydrogen sulfide and extreme cold could do the same for humans, an extremely useful fact to know in an emergency situation like a heart attack. Roth's suspended animation drugs are now in human trials.</p><p> One thing that's clear here at TED is that the future is going to look remarkably different from the past, thanks to brilliant minds like these. But forget the future. I just can't wait for day three."</p><p><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> <em>Images: TED/James Duncan Davidson</em></span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/sex-lasers-and-suspended-animation-day-two-at-0">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5505620605621728610?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/sex-lasers-and-suspended-animation-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-2594484941058652021Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:41:00 +00002010-02-12T08:05:58.154ZvideoJamie OliverideasTEDleadershipInspirationfood<div class="posterous_autopost"><p>An inspiring and passionate talk at TED 2010, as Jamie puts forward his wish.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>"I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire familes to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity".</strong></em></p> <p>There is a debate about <strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html" target="_blank">Jamie's ideas online at TED</a></strong>. Some felt he lacked facts, others that he over-dramatised. But however you cut it, the idea that obesity is preventable and that healthy cooking can have a profound, positive impact is compelling. It needs a concerted effort at home, in schools and across industry.</p> <p> <object height="326" width="446"> <param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JamieOliver_2010-medium.mp4&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JamieOliver-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=765&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=jamie_oliver;year=2010;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;event=TED2010;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JamieOliver_2010-medium.mp4&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JamieOliver-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=765&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=jamie_oliver;year=2010;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;event=TED2010;" wmode="transparent" height="326" width="446"></embed> </object> </p> <p>Jamie's speech is full of passion and challenge - and there can be no doubt one is watching a leader at work. A man with a vision, and the character to make change happen. We should all hope he succeeds. Want more detail? Check out his<strong> <a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/" target="_blank">campaigns and his successes</a></strong>.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/jamie-oliver-and-ted-prize-video-of-his-speec">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-2594484941058652021?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/jamie-oliver-ted-prize-video-of-his.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5585722468777283187Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:04:00 +00002010-02-12T12:58:31.930ZHelen WaltersideasTEDDufloDaniel KahnemanMichael ShermerEsther Duflo<div class="posterous_autopost"><p>Another great post on yesterday's <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/" target="_blank"><strong>TED 2010</strong></a> .... from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2010/02/thought_experim.html" target="_blank"><strong>Helen Walters at Business Week.</strong></a></p> <p>"Perhaps it was the title of the track: <strong>Mindshift.</strong> But three of the speakers in the first session at <strong>TED</strong> all threw out a thought experiment at the gathered crowd. A meme, I say, a veritable meme!</p> <p><img class="imgLeft" src="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/kahneman.jpg" alt="kahneman.jpg" align="left" height="144" width="216" />Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist <strong><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ekahneman/index.html" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Daniel Kahneman</a></strong>, kicked off the event proper. He challenged us to imagine that after our next vacation, all our photographs would be destroyed. Then we’d take a drug that would mean that we wouldn’t remember anything about our holiday. Would we, asked Kahneman, still choose to go on the same vacation? His question was intended to illuminate the difference between the “experiencing self”, which lives in the present, and the “remembering self”, which keeps track of memories.</p> <p>These two very different concepts cause very different responses—and are important considerations for those looking to study happiness, a deeply complex concept. It was a lyrical presentation and a thought-provoking way to start the day.</p> <p><img class="imgLeft" src="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/duflo.jpg" alt="duflo.jpg" align="left" height="144" width="216" />The next thought experiment came courtesy of French economist and poverty specialist, <strong><a href="http://econ-%3ca%20href=/" edu="" faculty="" eduflo="" short="">www.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo/short</a>" target="_"blank"">Esther Duflo</strong>. “You have a few million dollars,” she said. “Maybe you’re a politician in a developing country and you want to spend it on the poor. How do you spend it?” Duflo used this set-up to add nuance to the discussion around aid and global poverty, throwing out some stark statistics as she did so. For instance, she said, nine million children under the age of five die every year. “That’s the devastation of Haiti’s earthquake every eight days. And entirely preventable.”</p> <p>In Duflo’s eyes, individuals are so hampered by the scope and weight and sadness of the thought of global poverty that they end up not doing anything at all. “There’s no silver bullet, and it’s very frustrating,” she acknowledged. But, she added, even small measures can have a large impact. “So much of the discussion around poverty generates emotion and rhetoric that is more ideological than practical,” she said. “Just do an experiment.” An economist in tune with the “always-in-beta”, “launch-early; launch-often” mantra of our times.</p> <p><img class="imgLeft" src="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/shermer.jpg" alt="shermer.jpg" align="left" height="144" width="216" />Final thought experiment for the morning came from <strong><a href="http://www.michaelshermer.com/" target="_&quot;blank&quot;">Michael Shermer</a></strong>, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine. Imagine you’re a hominid on the plains of America, he said, when you hear a rustle in the grass. Is it a dangerous predator, or is it the wind? Your decision, he said drily, is important. Get it wrong by believing that it’s wind when it’s actually a predator and you’re history. “You won a Darwin award. You’ve been taken out of gene pool.” Shermer’s point, in an entertaining presentation, was to show that human beings look for patterns, and have a tendency to infuse patterns with meaning.</p> <p>Given the title of the magazine Shermer oversees, I imagined he was preaching to us all to stop being taken in by everything. Not the case. “If you’re too skeptical you miss the really good ideas,” he said. If you’re not skeptical enough, you’ll see patterns everywhere, and that way madness lies (here he used mathematician John Nash as an example of someone who had found too many patterns). “But just right and you don’t fall for too much baloney.” There’s a lesson there for everyone: question everything, but don’t be a cynic."</p> <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><cite>All images courtesy of TED/James Duncan Davidson</cite></span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/thought-experiments-at-ted-helen-walters-busi">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5585722468777283187?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/thought-experiments-at-ted-helen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-6337555433387113063Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:56:00 +00002010-02-11T10:56:34.215ZDavid Cameronsocietyleadershippolitics<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/02/taking-camerons-ted-talk-seriously/" target="_blank"><strong>From Prospect - 1th February 2010 </strong></a> Last night Tom Chatfield and I were lucky enough to be part of the 200 or so people packed into BAFTA&rsquo;s auditorium for the widely trailed &ldquo;secret&rdquo; Cameron TED talk. Three reflections. <strong></strong></p> <p><strong>1. People are missing the radicalism in his open contracts announcement.</strong> Cameron last night committed to publish the details of all government contracts. Not just IT contracts, which no one noticed they pledged to do in their IT paper before Christmas. ALL contracts. Every contract any contractor signs with a government department. Cleaners. Train operators. McKinsey being paid to write most of the Dhazi review. All of it. Here is the pledge: <em></em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>A conservative government will publish all government contracts worth over &pound;25,000 for goods and services in full, including all performance indicators, break clauses and penalty measures. This will enable the public to root out wasteful spending and poorly negotiated contracts, and open up the procurement system to more small businesses.</em></p> <p>Its a bit confusing, because this looks like their existing announcement (to publish all govt spending lines over 25k.) But it isn&rsquo;t. Its new. I can only imagine what the CBI think about this. It is, if delivered in this spirit, a genuinely radical transparency measure. Imagine the fuss this is going to cause when everyone who didn&rsquo;t get the contract pours over each detail, and asks difficult questions? Imagine how much easier it is going to be for outside bodies to track public money &mdash; think PFI projects &mdash; to see if they are on track, and also to use FOI to track progress? Interesting stuff.</p> <p><strong>2. Cameron&rsquo;s &ldquo;Transparency, Accountability, Choice&rdquo; framework should be taken seriously too</strong>. Last night Cameron &mdash; again &mdash; used this troika to structure his talk. It reminds me of Bill Clinton, who used to always talk about &ldquo;Responsibility, Opportunity, Community&rdquo; as his mantra &mdash; as perhaps most famously put in his 1996 campaign. I remember being told a story once about the Whitehouse staff doing an end-of-year skit at a christmas party, one part of which was to slightly tease Clinton for always saying this. Clinton, so i was told, took this badly &mdash; he saw &ldquo;opportunity, community, responsibility&rdquo; not as a slogan, but as a governing philosophy, as framework to apply to any policy problem. (Don&rsquo;t believe me? It even turned up in the names of his laws.) The same is true for Cameron.</p> <p>Last night&rsquo;s talk was fairly familiar territory for anyone who follows such things. It took the basic framework from his important 2007 Google Zeitgeist speech (the first time he signed up the post-Bureaucratic age narrative, thought up by Oliver Letwin, developed by Steve Hilton and popularised in print by Michael Gove earlier that year) of a pre and post bureaucratic age. But more important is the fact that this mantra &mdash; transparency, accountability, choice &mdash; always turns up in all of his speeches. It is, in effect, his governing philosophy. People should take it seriously, and think how they are going to apply it more broadly in policy when, and if, they are elected. <strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>3. The role of the state implicit in his remarks is startling optimistic.</strong> I think, too optimistic. In Cameron&rsquo;s &ldquo;big society&rdquo; speech a few months back, he laid out a startlingly optimistic vision for the future role of the state. I say startling because it is one which asks for a degree of subtlety and precision from state action that most progressives, let alone most conservatives, find implausible. Here it is: <em></em></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>This, then, is our new role for the state. Galvanising, catalysing, prompting, encouraging and agitating for community engagement and social renewal. It must help families, individuals, charities and communities come together to solve problems. We must use the state to remake society. We must use the state to help stimulate social action. </em></p> <p>The same vision of the state underpinned his remarks last night. This, remember, is the same hopeless, useless, Brownite state which &mdash; says Cameron &mdash; has failed utterly to deliver growth, end poverty, fix Broken Britain, improve education, make us healthier, and so on. Yet, in his hands, it will suddenly become a key-hole state, able to dip gently into the very fabric of local communities&mdash;the brittle fabric of social organisation which conservatives normally fight so hart to keep away from the state&mdash;as would a heart surgeon reach into an open chest. It will tweak here and there, and in so doing will to let lose a social flowering.</p> <p>Now, some of this I buy &mdash; for instance his agenda to push open public data, and transparency, will enable communities to act in various ways, as he claimed last night in his speech (giving the example of public spending, and also local crime information.) But behind this lies a deeper vision of not simply an information-producing state, but an interventionist state tasked with &ldquo;remaking&rdquo; things.</p> <p>How this is going to work I, honestly, have no idea, especially given all the bits of central government which might do this &mdash; the COI, the office of the third sector, the bits concerned with social action &mdash; aren&rsquo;t much good at the sort of thing he has in mind. So while this vision is attractive, at the moment it feels unrealistic too&mdash;an area where more work needs to be done to make real the bold claims that underpinned last nights remarks, namely that you can improve public services through clever use of new techniques (e.g. open data, or the insights of behavioural economics) but with no need for extra investment. If it looks overly optimistic, I reckon that is because it is.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/taking-david-camerons-ted-talk-seriously-jame">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-6337555433387113063?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/taking-david-camerons-ted-talk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-5061017754716738006Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:16:00 +00002010-02-11T07:16:05.891ZJamie OlivercookeducationTEDleadershipfood<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4347918400_db1671c342.jpg" height="192" alt="Jamie" width="289" /></p> <p><a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/" target="_blank"><strong>From the TED Prize session</strong></a>: <strong>Jamie Oliver</strong> has announced his TED Prize wish.</p> <p><strong>THE WISH:</strong><br /> &ldquo;I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.&rdquo;</p> <p><strong>THE PLAN:</strong><br /> Set up an organization to create a popular movement that will inspire people to change the way they eat. The movement will do this by establishing a network of community kitchens; launching a travelling food theater that will teach kids practical food and cooking skills in an entertaining way and provide basic training for parents and professionals; and bringing millions of people together through an online community to drive the fight against obesity. The grassroots movement must also challenge corporate America to support meaningful programs that will change the culture of junk food.</p> <p><strong>THE NEEDS:</strong></p> <p>Help to establish the organization, with funding, office space and facilities.</p> <p>Find partners to equip and run the community kitchens, and food suppliers to provide the fresh ingredients.</p> <p>A partner to build and maintain a fleet of food theatre trucks.</p> <p>Education experts, graphic designers, artists and writers to develop and produce creative, fun teaching materials.</p> <p>Communications experts to create messaging for the movement.</p> <p>Web designers and developers to create and build the website.</p> <p>Establish a food range that generates a sustainable income for the movement.</p> <p>Corporate partners to invest in cooking and food education for their customers and champion honest food labelling.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/jamie-olivers-ted-prize-wish-educate-every-ch">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-5061017754716738006?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/jamie-oliver-ted-prize-wish-educate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12375989.post-3827584547268885343Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:15:00 +00002010-02-11T00:35:58.272ZAntiangiogenictechnologyideasTEDinnovationcancer<div class="posterous_autopost"><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> Fascinating talk at TED 2010 about the power of diet to hold back the growth of cancers ... by restricting the blood flow to nascent cancer cells. Food that is "antiangiogenic" will help ... <p> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/mickyates/ojcAvvlxufoxiIkklHuupppmfcbJafmjxbqnbdnJgnewicGHbCrkEjEtGyji/media_httpblogtedcomA_admiF.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img style="width: 365px; height: 274px;" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/mickyates/ojcAvvlxufoxiIkklHuupppmfcbJafmjxbqnbdnJgnewicGHbCrkEjEtGyji/media_httpblogtedcomA_admiF.jpg.scaled500.jpg" /></a> </p><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/">conferences.ted.com</a></div> <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/"><b>TED 2010</b></a> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://mickyates.posterous.com/dr-william-lis-list-on-antiagiongenic-substan">mick's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12375989-3827584547268885343?l=www.leader-values.com%2Fblogger%2Fblog.asp' alt='' /></div>http://www.leader-values.com/blogger/2010/02/dr-william-li-list-on-antiagiongenic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mick yates)0