TED.com - Creative, Stimulating, Educational Speaker Videos
Posted on Mon, Jan 09, 2012
By Larry Butz - GEA Consulting 
In industry we are always looking for new ideas, better ways of doing things, thinking outside the nine dots, etc.... We read books, go to conferences, seminars and meetings in the quest.
I would like to share with you a resource that I have been using that does exactly this...at no cost. It is TED.com, a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The two annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Edinburgh, Scotland, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).
Among the more than 1000 speaker videos you will find
Steve Jobs: How to Live Before You Die,
Barry Schwartz on The Paradox of Choice,
Bill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero! or
Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China
Give it a try. Take a few minutes to understand the criteria you wish to apply in finding the right speaker presentation for you. Ted.com