Key to the Pitch: Make Me Care
By Tim Berry
Never underestimate the business value of the good story. Business planning is telling stories and making them happen. Startups make stories come true. In this delightful TED talk storyteller (filmmaker) Andrew Stanton boils it down to this: Make me care. If you want to sell a business idea, tell it as a story. The best... Read More »
Will Success Spoil Ted.com?
By Tim Berry
I’ve watched dozens of TED talks online and never seen a bad one. TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design. It started in 1984. Since 1990 it was located in a conference center outside of Monterrey CA. Since 2001 it’s been curated mainly by Chris Anderson. Most TED conferences were amazing. I’ve never been, but... Read More »
Truth, Magic, Stories, and the Digital Campfire
By Tim Berry
Do yourself a favor and watch Marco Tempest on this brilliant six-minute TED video. If you don’t see it here, use this link to go to the TED site to watch it. After you’re done, I’d like to tell two true stories that seem somehow related. And before the video, I want to highlight some... Read More »
The Brain Scientist’s Insight From Inside Out
By Tim Berry
She’s a brain scientist who studied the brain “from inside out” when she had a stroke. We should listen to what she discovered. And what we have to choose from. If you don’t see the video embedded here, you can click this link to go to the original on TED.com. Read More »
The Hidden Power of Smiling
By Tim Berry
So it’s Friday today, at least it is where I am. Let’s all pause and smile. We can’t always be about business planning and entrepreneurship and small business. Life matters too. Amazing facts, all from the video embedded here: The width of a random smile correlates with the length of life; A single smile can... Read More »
3 Things He Learned While the Plane Crashed
By Tim Berry
This is just five minutes. Just click and listen. There’s nothing I could add to it. Or just click here to view the original, on TED.com Read More »
Big Problem: We Don’t Know We’re Wrong Until Later
By Tim Berry
You should find 17 minutes to watch this TED talk by Kathryn Schulz, “wrongologist,” author of the book Being Wrong, in this TED talk called On Being Wrong. We know, intellectually, that we’re sometimes wrong. Of course we make mistakes. But when we’re wrong, while we’re wrong, we don’t know it. She says: It does... Read More »
The Beauty Of Data Visualization
By Tim Berry
I really like business charts. I think I always have. I’ve been in the business of communicating about numbers for a long time. And here is a master of it. David McCandless, a British journalist, also calls himself “a data detective,” and we see why in his Ted talk shown here, The Beauty Of Data... Read More »
On the Value of Good Computer Games
By Tim Berry
My thanks to Chris Brogan for posting Games and Fun on his blog this morning, linking to Jane McGonical’s Gaming Can Make a Better World video on TED.com (embedded below). In his post, Chris says: Forget the rest of my blog post and just watch this. Ask yourself whether or not you could make more... Read More »
Our Children Spread Their Dreams Under Our Feet. We Should Tread Softly.
By Tim Berry
This less-than-17-minute talk was posted on the TED ideas worth spreading site just a week or so ago. I think every one of us should take 17 minutes off and listen to this, and think about it. It’s funny. It’s interesting. And it’s important. Sir Ken Robinson starts with a reference to global climate change,... Read More »
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