Tag Archives: TEDTalks

The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed | Bill Gross

Bill Gross has founded a lot of start-ups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others… Read More »

Why we have too few women leaders | Sheryl Sandberg

http://www.ted.com Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading… Read More »

Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn’t flat

It may seem that we’re living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We’re not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there’s a delta between perception and reality in a world that’s maybe not so hyperconnected after all.… Read More »