How to Raise Successful Kids Without Overparenting

By Tim Berry

My video this week is somewhat like a compliment to my post yesterday, 5 tips on raising children as entrepreneurs. This is a TED talk from last November, Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting. Here’s how TED summarizes: With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the... Read More »

Video: 50 Entrepreneurs’ Advice in 18 Minutes

By Tim Berry

For a Friday video today, hard to resist. This is an edited collection of snippets of advice from 50 entrepreneurs. I’m not big on following recipes, but these are so quick and pithy they can serve well as food for thought instead. This one if from blockshelf.com. Read More »

Video: Scott Cook: Savor Surprises in Business

By Tim Berry

Nice short video of Scott Cook giving a great example of how surprises come up in business. My Friday video for this week, from Stanford eCorner. He talks about discovering the value of doing simple bookkeeping for people who aren’t accountants and don’t care about debits and credits. As he tells how Intuit discovered the... Read More »

Charter for Compassion

By Tim Berry

Friday video today is a pitch for compassion worldwide. The Charter for Compassion organization is rooted in the idea that compassion is at the heart of all religion, a core concept that brings humans together. Think about it: What do all organized religions have in common? I’ve been a member since I first heard about... Read More »

Greatest Speech Ever

By Tim Berry

This week’s Friday video is one we should all watch. It’s just four minutes. It’s amazing. Incredibly, it was recorded more than 70 years ago, but seems like it applies in every detail to the world today. If you don’t see it here, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1fMvLbE85E And by the way, my thanks to my... Read More »

Video: TED Talk: Dare to Disagree

By Tim Berry

My Friday video this week is from another TED talk, Dare to Disagree, by Margaret Heffernan. If you don’t see it here, you can click the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree?language=en. We are in very strange times, in my view, based on 60+ years of life in the U.S.A. We need to find a way back to working together... Read More »

Video: Don’t Just Ask for Feedback – Listen

By Tim Berry

My Friday video today, from Stanford ECorner, Mike Rothenberg talks about inviting honest feedback. How to ask for it, how to listen, and how people will go slowly at first. You have to reassure them that you really want the feedback. I’ll add that in my decades in business, I’ve come to treasure the people... Read More »

Math and Science, Art and Creativity

By Tim Berry

What to math and science have to do with art and creativity? For my Friday video this week, another TED talk: Danielle Feinberg, Pixar’s director of photography. Watch how animated she becomes as she talks about what she does. At about 2:35 or so in, she’s demonstrating how they create landscape with 3D lighting. It’s... Read More »