Great TED Talks: Leadership: An Unofficial Guide with Words of Wisdom from 100 TED Speakers

by Harriet Minter

The words of 100 prominent TED Conference speakers will help you achieve your personal and professional goals.
 

In 2006, TED Talks became accessible online, and have since been viewed more than a billion times by people across the world. Great TED Talks: Leadership highlights the words of 100 TED Conference speakers and discusses how their ideas can be applied to your own life. Whether you’re a leader of a business group or the organizer of a small social club, the advice in this book will help you visualize and achieve your goals. Included in each section are URLs directing readers to the TED website so they can watch the original videos in their entirety. 
 

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

Published May 5, 2020

Reviews

[Cody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun and nicely illustrated synopsis of 100 Ted talks all revolving around what makes a great leader. I had a few noteworthy takeaways regarding finding strengths in others and pre-mortems, but other than that this was more of just a fun little read. I don't think that one would read this hoping to gain some insight, but more to start their own internal process of dissecting their own day-to-day and how there is always room for improvement.

[Cezar Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly a cliff notes of TED talks, there were a lot of entries that seemed interesting, and some that just didn't move the needle. Though the compact format made it easy to get through, I think it would have been more helpful if it was just a few paragraphs longer for each entry to really give more depth into the actual talk.

[Nilendu Misra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good ideas -

- meet people in their onlyness
- focus on t minus 1 moments
- creative abrasion
- red- vs. green-zone behaviors in chickens (and office)
- relational equality
- where is your barbershop
- hug-a-thug

[Gali · Rating 1 out of 5]

All the write-ups are so short that it was hard to understand just how the talk that's being discussed is related to the subject at hand. Thus only one description out of the 100 made me consider looking up that specific TED talk.

[Ligia Bonetti · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s great book that helps not just to lead, but inspire, by learning how to communicate ideas with clarity, confidence, and impact. Definitely words of wisdom.

[Erika · Rating 2 out of 5]

Printed book version of introductions to TedTalks episodes. You will literally not need it.