TED Community » Michel Desjardins
About Me
I am an assimilator and integrator of ideas. Currently living in Melbourne and working at Telstra.
- Location:
- Australia, Melbourne
- Current organization:
- Telstra
- Past organizations:
- Deloitte Australia, Deloitte Russia, Deloitte Canada, KPMG Canada
- Current role:
- Manager, Assurance & Advisory
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Games, Presentation, Leadership, Assurance, Risk Management
- I am:
- Brainstormer, Business leader, Concerned citizen, Entrepreneur, Finance professional, Global soul, Idea generator, Life mentor, Project manager, World traveler
- Associations:
- Chartered Accountant , Certified Information Systems Auditor - CISA
- Languages:
- French, Russian, English
- My website links:
- Blup Blup Game Studio
- Universities:
- HEC Montreal
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Games - Game mechanics - The brain - Neuro-Linguistic Programmation - General Semantic (Null-A) - Zen - Personal Development - Teas
An idea worth spreading
I am currently developing a 2D Facebook game where players will be hunting various aliens, as part of an intergalactic Roman hunting society.
Talk to me about
Anything. I am very open mind as long as you are using logical arguments or being funny. :)
People don't know that I'm good at
Managing my emotions and subconscious using a mix of cortico-thalamic pauses, NLP, zen, general semantic, etc.
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A comment on Conversation: TED Ideas Worth Funding
I have my own ideas (private business ideas) and I am working hard to make it come to life. It's not an easy task. It requires the assembling of a skilled international team. It requires time, personal and financial investment. I have a full understanding of the full life cycle of an ideas (or business) from its generation, implementation to retirement.
To have TED ideas and to share it is one thing (and an excellent one). But it's another thing to make ideas happen. The essence of my idea is "how could we help ideas coming into life?"
Potential help such as:
- design
- execution
- manufacturing
- funding
- business management
- risk management
- project management
- marketing
- legal
- programming
- etc.
Don't just focus on the funding part (most people dislike the concept, but they like the money when it flows in). If an idea would be supported by crowd sourcing the need for funding could be minimal if not nil. But without crowd sourcing, the need for funding is significantly higher as a project would need to hire specialists and consultants to do the work.
How can we help TED ideas?
A comment on Conversation: [French]Quelles sont nos options pour manifester notre désaccord avec les lignes politiques de nos dirigeants successifs dansune république?
Comme tu l'as mentionné Christophe, les medias sociaux sont très populaires depuis quelques années. Soit en milieu corporatif ou politique, ils sont de plus en plus écoutés. Ca reste une option complexe, car un message sur Twitter est l'équivalent d'un oiseaux slifflant au milieu de la forêt Amazonienne. Il reste certains forums, blogs ou autres médias qui sont populaires et qui permettent d'être utiliser pour faire passer un message.
Trouve une façon de communiquer qui puisse influencer les sondages et ultimement, les votes. Les policiens se fient énormément (trop) sur les sondages.
Encourage les gens à voter, car c'est quand les gens votent qu'il peut y avoir du changement.
Une option radical serait de te lancer en politique. Mais, c'est vouloir souffrir que de faire cela.
Je suis d'accord avec toi sur l'importance de conserver une approache pacifiste, positive, axée sur l'amélioration continue de ta nation.
Bonne chance.
Michel
(Québécois)
A comment on Conversation: Have you realized your potential?
A reply on Conversation: TED Ideas Worth Funding
A reply on Conversation: TED Ideas Worth Funding
I agree with your angle especially regarding the speakers.
But what about this "Ideas" channel where my question is located?
A what, in my department, we created an "idea register". We collate them and a department committee assess the benefits and viability of each idea. By exception we submit it to voting by our colleagues. Great ideas will have an action owner (usually a Manager or up) and staff will be allocated based on priority of the new project, our currently portfolio and availability of staff and resources.
We have ideas, and we make our ideas come to life. We don't sit and just watch it pass and fade away.
A comment on Conversation: If you could correct one mistake you made in life, which would it be?
It's the moto of Quebec: "Je me souviens" (I remember).
A comment on Conversation: Linking our accounts on TED with other social networks
A comment on Conversation: Mining the Moon and other solar bodies.
Especially, considering the astronomic costs of sending anything to the moon (and further).
A comment on Talk: Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
I was 17 at that time. I am now 37 and what I experienced while meditation was the most important moment of my life.
A comment on Conversation: Where do organized religions go wrong?
Religions are in fact "social control frameworks". They mainly exist to lead mankind in a certain direction and to provide a sense of belonging. It's a necessity to avoid social chaos. Some clever but unethical people used it to gain power and wealth. The religions itself did not go wrong: The religious leaders did.