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The secret ingredient that makes some teams better than others

Culture defines any business, but it's one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the often-overlooked element necessary to build an effective, efficient organization: social capital. Running a software company in Boston, I recognized -- and my board told me -- that we needed to repos...
Posted May 5, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/the-secret-ingredient-that-makes-some-teams-better-than-others

TED’s giant summer reading list: Books to read right now

We asked TED speakers, TED-Ed educators and TED Fellows: “What books would you bring with you to a desert island?” In their deliciously diverse responses, you'll find there's something for every kind of reader. They offered up recommendations -- please use the following links to jump around the sections you're interested in -- for when you're h...
Posted June 27, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/teds-giant-summer-reading-list-151-books-to-dive-into-right-now

How business can stay ahead of the curve in the age of data: Report from TED@BCG

Tuesday morning in the former East Berlin, the midcentury Kosmos cinema hummed with new ideas on business, technology and self, at an event called TED@BCG. The event was produced by TED Institute, a project that embeds within organizations and companies to help employees develop their ideas. Six hundred TEDsters, BCG'ers and guests filled th...
Posted October 24, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/24/report-from-tedbcg

Reading list: 23 female TED speakers tell us about the books that shaped them

Here are the books that profoundly influenced women from our speaker community, and they’re just as wonderfully diverse as TED itself. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë When I read this book for the first time as a deeply odd fifth-grader (or, as Jane says, "poor, plain, and little"), it felt like grasping onto a life raft that had been flung to...
Posted March 7, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/reading-list-23-female-ted-speakers-tell-us-about-the-books-that-shaped-them

Your summer reading list: Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill and Melinda Gates and many more share their book recommendations

  Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree. Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Warning: not all of these books can be classified as beach reads. And we think that is a good thing. Picks from Elizabeth Gilbert, author  The Principles of Uncertainty ...
Posted June 12, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/06/12/your-summer-reading-list-2014

Scenes from a pandemic: Firsthand stories of life in 23 countries, from the TED Fellows

The current coronavirus pandemic is a truly global one; in fact, Antarctica is the only continent with no cases (although that could change). Most nations have responded with similar measures -- stay-at-home advisories, shutdown of non-essential businesses, social distancing -- but the scope of these changes has varied and so has the human impac...
Posted April 10, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/scenes-from-a-global-pandemic-heres-what-life-is-like-in-23-countries-from-the-ted-fellows

Why belonging matters: Fellows Friday with Chelsea Shields Strayer

How did human emotions evolve to help us survive? For the last decade, cultural anthropologist Chelsea Shields Strayer has studied the indigenous healing practices of the Ashante people of Ghana, discovering that emotional pain serves useful purposes -- including the relief of physical pain. In this conversation with the TED Blog, she tells th...
Posted November 15, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/15/fellows-friday-chelsea-shields-strayer

Why I document the often violent and traumatic daily lives of others: Fellows Friday with photographer Jon Lowenstein

Social violence in Guatemala, Mexican and Central American migrant communities in the United States, the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, children with cerebral malaria in Uganda -- for the past decade, photographer Jon Lowenstein has been documenting the often violent and traumatic daily lives of individuals and communities living at the ...
Posted December 6, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/06/q-and-a-with-photographer-jon-lowenstein

Your winter reading list: 56 books you won’t be able to put down

Since we know TED speakers love to read, we asked them: What book could you not stop reading? Here are their eclectic picks, ready for sticking in your carry-on or for gifting. If you want to be transported to another place and time The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood This novel is set in the near future and tells a horrifying story of a...
Posted December 11, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/your-holiday-reading-recommendations-from-ted-speakers-56-books-you-wont-be-able-to-put-down

TED's summer culture list: 114 podcasts, books, TV shows, movies and more to nourish you

Whether you're staying put or going away, summer can be a great time to relax and try new things. So we asked TED speakers to recommend podcasts, books, TV shows, movies and more that have nourished their minds, spirits and bodies (yes, you'll find a link to a recipe for olive-cheese loaf below) in recent times. You can use the links here to ju...
Posted July 2, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/teds-summer-culture-list-114-podcasts-books-tv-shows-movies-and-more-to-nourish-you

Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recommended by TEDsters

Books can entertain, sucking you like a tornado into incredible new worlds. Books can teach, giving you a richer understanding of time periods, people and ideas you’ve never been exposed to. But books can do so much more. In today’s talk, TED's own Lisa Bu introduces us to the concept of “comparative reading,” the practice of reading book...
Posted May 31, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/31/your-mega-summer-reading-list-180-books-recommended-by-tedsters
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