My favourite TED talks (Part Eight)

I have been passionately promoting TED almost since it started. It is a fantastic initiation that completely re-shaped public speaking and informative presentations by creating a very entertaining and unique formula for sharing information. In today's accelerated world it offers us full engagement in any contemporary subject in maximum 20 minutes. Speakers are carefully selected and well-prepared to meet the high standards, therefore it is a real privilege to give a TED-talk. There are thousands of great speeches in basically any topic that you could imagine, so it is not easy to choose the best ones. Still, in this series I would like to share with you a few personal favourites.

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Dan Pink touches upon a popular topic when he approaches the theory of motivation. I cannot think of an area that has been more widely researched than this, however,​ he is able to bring in some fresh thoughts and viewpoints. His theory is called Motivation 3.0 and circulates around three words: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. In his fascinating talk he starts a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. What drives do we have then? Just listen to him explaining it! 😁

Recently he has been dealing with the power of timing. Here is a full lecture about it on YouTube proving you that timing is really a science.

Do you have a favourite TED-talk? I would be interested to know. We can learn from each other... 😊 Stay tuned, soon I come back with another suggestion for you.

Previous parts of this series:

Simon Sinek on leadership
Ursus Wehrli on tidying up arts
Dan Ariely on the irrationality of our "rational" decisions
Julian Treasure on listening
Tim Urban on procrastination
Nicolas Christakis on social networks
Amy Cuddy on the power of body language