Week 18 - Nelson Mandela: Madiba’s Moving Inauguration Speech and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiography

RIP, Nelson Mandela: Madiba’s Moving Inauguration Speech and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiography

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-inauguration-speech/

Why Did We Make The Atomic Bomb?

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.” - Robert OppenHeimer

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/12/07/why-did-we-make-the-atomic-bomb/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The Power of Thinking INSIDE the Box

There's nothing that can kill a great idea more quickly than losing it in the execution phase

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131206182804-21564708-the-power-of-thinking-inside-the-box?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Inside India’s Aadhar, The World’s Biggest Biometrics Database

Biggest biometrics database on earth.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/06/inside-indias-aadhar-the-worlds-biggest-biometrics-database/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The Secret Phrase Top Innovators Use

How Might we?

http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/09/the-secret-phrase-top-innovato/

Week 17 - The Psychology of Self Control

You're Always On Stage

Higher Standard for your own self

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshlinkner/2013/11/26/youre-always-on-stage/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

CliffsNotes to Storytelling in 2014

The Value proposition just isn't the same as it used to be

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131126174112-10486099-cliffsnotes-to-storytelling-in-2014?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Advice From The Most Innovative Leaders

Questioning, observing, networking, experimenting and associational thinking

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fljl45ghd/what-makes-a-great-innovative-ceo/

The Psychology of Self-Control

Preserve it to exercise it!

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/27/the-psychology-of-self-control/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

A Few More Leadership Lessons From Silicon Valley

Let your faith be bigger than your fears

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2013/11/30/a-few-more-leadership-lessons-from-silicon-valley/

Week 16 - The Beauty of Mathematics

Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid

Fear Alone Time

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2013/11/18/mentally-strong-people-the-13-things-they-avoid/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Google's Zero Moment of Truth Meets The Ultimate Moment of Truth

Give Them Something to Talk About

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131119201220-2293140-google-s-zero-moment-of-truth-meets-the-ultimate-moment-of-truth?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

A Q&A With The Father Of The Lean Startup Movement

If you haven’t worked in a startup, don’t go to business school to work in one. I want you to get your hands dirty doing scut work

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131119194807-17970806-a-q-a-with-the-father-of-the-lean-startup-movement?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

How to Protect Yourself from Failure

Identify with interests outside your work.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131123022336-75054000-how-to-protect-yourself-from-failure?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." —Bertrand Russell

http://vimeo.com/77330591?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Week 15 - The World's Influential Business Thinkers 2013

The World's Most Influential Business Thinkers 2013

Between Relevance of Ideas and Power to Inspire

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/11/11/the-worlds-most-influential-business-thinkers-2013/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Here's a New Way to Look at Competitors

The Petal Diagram

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131111153255-95015-here-s-a-new-way-to-look-at-competitors?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

One of the Best Goal Setting Exercises

How we spend our days is how we spend our life

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/one-the-best-goal-setting-exercises.html

10 Strategies for Increasing Your Creativity

Take time to "Sharpen the blade"

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131111154400-48342529-10-strategies-for-increasing-your-creativity?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The History of the English Language, Animated

Half Art and Half Instinct

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/13/open-university-history-of-the-english-language-animated/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Week 14 - 3 Ted Talks that could change your life

Keys to a Successful Organization

Define the real problem

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131028141608-48342529-creativity-and-innovation-your-keys-to-a-successful-organization?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Guillermo del Toro Shares 14 Creative Insights From His Spectacular Cabinet Of Curiosities Sketch Book

School yourself in life

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3020262/master-class/guillermo-del-toro-shares-14-horror-insights-from-his-spectacular-sketch-book?partner=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The Innovation Genome

Purposes, Practices and Personal

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131029141321-14236046-the-innovation-genome?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Effective Leaders Let Their Emotions Show

Emotions are critical to everything a leader must do

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2013/10/29/effective-leaders-let-their-emotions-show/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

3 TED Talks That Will Change Your Life

The 'Why' matters

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131031224157-80844253-3-ted-talks-that-will-change-your-life?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews