How to Innovate for Collaboration and Success: TED Talk Playlist

How to Innovate for Collaboration and Success: TED Talk Playlist

Here is a group of talks curated by TED. They are designed to help you set your team up for success. The various talks offer a blueprint for building innovative collaborations. Some of the titles are:

How to turn a group of strangers into a team – Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies “teaming,” where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual problems. Recalling stories of teamwork on the fly, such as the incredible rescue of 33 miners trapped half a mile underground in Chile in 2010, Edmondson shares the elements needed to turn a group of strangers into a quick-thinking team that can nimbly respond to challenges.

How diversity makes teams more innovative – Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that will help you build a better, more robust company, Lorenzo dives into the data and explains how your company can start producing fresher, more creative ideas by treating diversity as a competitive advantage.

Why we ignore obvious problems and how to act on them. Why do we often neglect big problems, like the financial crisis and climate change, until it’s too late? Policy strategist Michele Wucker urges us to replace the myth of the “black swan” — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe — with the reality of the “gray rhino,” the preventable danger that we choose to ignore. She shows why predictable crises catch us by surprise — and lays out some signs that there may be a charging rhino in your life right now.

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