Medici Effect author talks about innovation at the convergence of risk, passion and luck. In his book, Johansson argues that innovation comes from diverse industries, cultures, and disciplines when they all intersect, bringing ideas from one fi...

What does an anthropologist think of big data? In this talk, Genevieve Bell invites us to step back and find a new, well actually quite old, frame of reference for big data. We have been dealing with big data for millennia. Approaching big data...

Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers - and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (un...

Most people try to improve their work by 10%, following the same path as everyone else, and fail. You spend most of your time trying to avoid small mistakes. If you aim to *improve by 10x* (e.g. a factor of ten) then you have to tackle the prob...