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Shawn Achor says that most modern research focus on the average, but that if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average. He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up.
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Graphic design legend Rick Valicenti incites us to “bring life to form,” using design and technology to mediate real human presence. His talk is an exploration of creative methods that help today’s leaders gain perspective and inspire change.
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“If just one person believes in you, deep enough, and strong enough, believes in you. Hard enough and long enough, it stands to reason, that someone else will think ‘If he can do it, I can do it’.
British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked — Bosnia, for instance and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success.
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Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. He has always offset abstract thinking by deliberately teaming up with people completely unlike him. “I’m most effective,” he says, “as a foil to others.”
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