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How great leaders inspire action

How do you explain when things don't go as we assume? Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions? For example: Why is Apple so innovative? Year after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition. And yet, they're just a computer company. They're just like everyone else. They have the same access to the same talent,the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media. Then why is it that they seem to have something different? Why is it that Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights Movement? He wasn't the only man who suffered in pre-civil rights America, and he certainly wasn't the only great orator of the day. Why him? And why is it that the Wright brothers were able to figure out controlled, powered man flight when there were certainly other teams who were better qualified, better funded -- and they didn't achieve powered man flight, and the Wright brothers beat them to it. There's something else at play here.

About three and a half years ago, I made a discovery. And this discovery profoundly changed my view on how I thought the world worked, and it even profoundly changed the way in which I operate in it. As it turns out, there's a pattern. As it turns out, all the great inspiring leaders and organizations in the world,whether it's Apple or Martin Luther King or the Wright brothers, they all think, act and communicate the exact same way. And it's the complete opposite to everyone else. All I did was codify it, and it's probably the world's simplest idea. I call it the golden circle.

Why? How? What? This little idea explains why some organizations and some leaders are able to inspire where others aren't. By "why," I mean: What's your purpose? What's your cause? What's your belief? Why does your organization exist?

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 Teaching one child at a time

Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual.

  About : Service and Education

  Where : In Bangalore, 800 slums, 20k Children.

  Top Talk : India is spending 250 Billion per Year for School. Even though 1 in 4 of School Teachers    had 0% Attendance in An Year.

   Did : Adopted 165 child in starting stage now they were 1150. At initial stage Only one School Now    there are Four Schools and One Junior College.

   Interesting : Change is not only stopped with the Children. After some days Mothers and Fathers        too Started attending for Night Class.

   Final Word : Mr Parashwaram (In Last frames) is going to take on TED stage in few Years. Thank You!!! :)

                           

                                       Good Work Waiting for Mr.Parashwaram

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   What my religion really says about women??

By Alaa Murabit, Adviser at UN Women Society.

So on my way here, the passenger next to me and I had a very interesting conversation during my flight.He told me, "It seems like the United States has run out of jobs, because they're just making some up:cat psychologist, dog whisperer, tornado chaser."

A couple of seconds later, he asked me, "So what do you do?"

And I was like, "Peace builder?" (Laughter)

Every day, I work to amplify the voices of women and to highlight their experiences and their participation in peace processes and conflict resolution, and because of my work, I recognize that the only way to ensure the full participation of women globally is by reclaiming religion.

Now, this matter is vitally important to me. As a young Muslim woman, I am very proud of my faith. It gives me the strength and conviction to do my work every day. It's the reason I can be here in front of you. 

My parents moved from Libya, North Africa, to Canada in the early 1980s, and I am the middle child of 11 children. Yes, 11. But growing up, I saw my parents, both religiously devout and spiritual people, pray and praise God for their blessings.

I was never taught that God judged differently based on gender. And my parents' understanding of God as a merciful and beneficial friend and provider shaped the way I looked at the world.

The most important lesson I learned growing up was the importance of being at the table. When my mom's favorite lamp broke, I had to be there when she was trying to find out how and by who, because I had to defend myself, because if you're not, then the finger is pointed at you, and before you know it, you will be grounded. I am not speaking from experience, of course.

When I was 15 in 2005, I completed high school and I moved from Canada -- Saskatoon -- to Zawiya, my parents' hometown in Libya, a very traditional city. Mind you, I had only ever been to Libya before on vacation, and as a seven-year-old girl, it was magic. It was ice cream and trips to the beach and really excited relatives.

Turns out it's not the same as a 15-year-old young lady. I very quickly became introduced to the cultural aspect of religion. The words "haram" -- meaning religiously prohibited -- and "aib" -- meaning culturally inappropriate -- were exchanged carelessly, as if they meant the same thing and had the same consequences. And I found myself in conversation after conversation with classmates and colleagues, professors, friends, even relatives, beginning to question my own rule and my own aspirations. And even with the foundation my parents had provided for me, I found myself questioning the role of women in my faith.

To me, it all came back to the lessons I had learned as a child. The decision maker, the person who gets to control the message, is sitting at the table, and unfortunately, in every single world faith, they are not women. Religious institutions are dominated by men and driven by male leadership, and they create policies in their likeness, and until we can change the system entirely, then we can't realistically expect to have full economic and political participation of women. Our foundation is broken. 

My mom actually says, you can't build a straight house on a crooked foundation.

In 2011, the Libyan revolution broke out, and my family was on the front lines. And there's this amazing thing that happens in war, a cultural shift almost, very temporary. And it was the first time that I felt it was not only acceptable for me to be involved, but it was encouraged. It was demanded. Myself and other women had a seat at the table. We weren't holding hands or a medium. We were part of decision making.We were information sharing. We were crucial. And I wanted and needed for that change to be permanent.

urns out, that's not that easy. It only took a few weeks before the women that I had previously worked with were returning back to their previous roles, and most of them were driven by words of encouragement from religious and political leaders.

In 2012 and 2013, my organization led the single largest and most widespread campaign in Libya. We entered homes and schools and universities, even mosques. We spoke to 50,000 people directly, and hundreds of thousands more through billboards and television commercials, radio commercials and posters.

It is not easy, challenging distorted religious messaging. You will have your fair share of insults and ridicule and threats. But we have to do it. We have no other option than to reclaim the message of human rights, the principles of our faith, not for us, not for the women in your families, not for the women in this room, not even for the women out there, but for societies that would be transformed with the participation of women. And the only way we can do that, our only option, is to be, and remain, at the table.

Thank You!!!

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Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development


We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth. This is bad news, but perhaps surprising to you, it's also part of the good news. We're the first generation -- thanks to science. This is a scientific journey on the challenges facing humanity in the global phase of sustainability.

On this journey, I'd like to bring, apart from yourselves, a good friend, a stakeholder, who's always absent when we deal with the negotiations on environmental issues, a stakeholder who refuses to compromise -- planet Earth. So I thought I'd bring her with me today on stage, to have her as a witness of a remarkable journey, which humbly reminds us of the period of grace we've had over the past 10,000 years. This is the living conditions on the planet over the last 100,000 years. It's a very important period -- it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet. We've had the same, roughly, abilities that developed civilizations as we know it. This is the environmental conditions on the planet.

The trouble is we're putting a quadruple sqeeze on this poor planet, a quadruple sqeeze, which, as its first squeeze, has population growth of course. Now, this is not only about numbers; this is not only about the fact that we're seven billion people committed to nine billion people, it's an equity issue as well.The majority of the environmental impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial bandwagon in the mid-18th century. The majority of the planet,aspiring for development, having the right for development, are in large aspiring for an unsustainable lifestyle, a momentous pressure.

The second pressure on the planet is, of course the climate agenda -- the big issue -- where the policy interpretation of science is that it would be enough to stabilize greenhouse gases at 450 ppm to avoid average temperatures exceeding two degrees, to avoid the risk that we may be destabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, holding six meters -- level rising, the risk of destabilizing the Greenland Ice Sheet,holding another seven meters -- sea level rising.

Now, as a scientist, what's the evidence for this? Well, the evidence is, unfortunately, ample. It's not only carbon dioxide that has this hockey stick pattern of accelerated change. You can take virtually any parameter that matters for human well-being -- nitrous oxide, methane, deforestation, overfishing land degredation, loss of species

The key though in all of these, the red thread, is the shift in mindset,moving away from a situation where we simply are pushing ourselves into a dark future, where we instead backcast our future, and we say, "What is the playing field on the planet? What are the planetary boundaries within which we can safely operate?" and then backtrack innovations within that. But of course, the drama is, it clearly shows that incremental change is not an option.

So, there is scientific evidence. They sort of say the harsh news, that we are facing the largest transformative development since the industrialization. In fact, what we have to do over the next 40 yearsis much more dramatic and more exciting than what we did when we moved into the situation we're in today. Now, science indicates that, yes, we can achieve a prosperous future within the safe operating space, if we move simultaneously, collaborating on a global level, from local to global scale, in transformative options, which build resilience on a finite planet.

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 Rose Goslinga: Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding

In Kenya, 1984 is known as the year of the cup, or the goro goro. The goro goro is a cup used to measure two kilograms of maize flower on the market, and the maize flower is used to make ugali, a polenta-like cake that is eaten together with vegetables. Both the maize and the vegetables are grown on most Kenyan farms, which means that most families can feed themselves from their own farm. One goro goro can feed three meals for an average family, and in 1984, the whole harvest could fit in one goro goro. It was and still is one of the worst droughts in living memory. Now today, I insure farmers against droughtslike those in the year of the cup, or to be more specific, I insure the rains.

In 2008, I was working for the Ministry of Agriculture of Rwanda, and my boss had just been promoted to become the minister. She launched an ambitious plan to start a green revolution in her country, and before we knew it, we were importing tons of fertilizer and seed and telling farmers how to apply that fertilizer and plant. A couple of weeks later, the International Monetary Fund visited us, and asked my minister, "Minister, it's great that you want to help farmers reach food security, but what if it doesn't rain?" My minister answered proudly and somewhat defiantly, "I am going to pray for rain." That ended the discussion. On the way back to the ministry in the car, she turned around to me and said, "Rose, you've always been interested in finance. Go find us some insurance."

At the start of February 2012 in western Kenya, the rains started, and they started early, and when rains start early, farmers are encouraged, because it usually means that the season is going to be good. So they took out loans and planted. For the next three weeks, there wasn't a single drop of rain, and the crops that had germinated so well shriveled and died. We'd insured the loans of a micro finance institution that had provided those loans to about 6,000 farmers in that area, and we called them up and said,"Look, we know about the drought. We've got you. We'll give you 200,000 Euros at the end of the season." They said, "Wow, that's great, but that'll be late. Could you give us the money now? Then these farmers can still replant and can get a harvest this season." So we convinced our insurance partners, and later that April, these farmers replanted. We took the idea of replanting to a seed company and convinced them to price the cost of insurance into every bag of seed, and in every bag, we packed a card that had a number on it, and when the farmers would open the card, they'd text in that number, and that number would actually help us to locate the farmer and allocate them to a satellite pixel. A satellite would then measure the rainfall for the next three weeks, and if it didn't rain, we'd replace their seed.
One of the first — (Applause) — Hold on, I'm not there!
One of the first beneficiaries of this replanting guarantee was Bosco Mwinyi. We visited his farm later that August, and I wish I could show you the smile on his face when he showed us his harvest, because it warmed my heart and it made me realize why selling insurance can be a good thing. But you know, he insisted that we get his whole harvest in the picture, so we had to zoom out a lot. Insurance secured his harvest that season, and I believe that today, we have all the tools to enable African farmers to take control of their own destiny. No more years of the cup. Instead, I am looking forward to, at least somehow, the year of the insurance, or the year of the great harvest.
Thank you.

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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Good morning. How are you? (Laughter) It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we've had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it.The second is that it's put us in a place where we have no idea what's going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out.

                                                  click on the Link Do schools kill creativity?

I have an interest in education. Actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in education. Don't you?I find this very interesting. If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- Actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly. (Laughter) If you work in education, you're not asked.(Laughter) And you're never asked back, curiously. That's strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, "What do you do?" and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face. They're like, "Oh my God," you know, "Why me?" (Laughter) "My one night out all week." (Laughter) But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because it's one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and money and other things. So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp. If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.

I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did. The teacher was fascinated. She went over to her, and she said, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." And the girl said, "They will, in a minute." (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity?What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination. We have to be careful now that we use this gift wisely and that we avert some of the scenarios that we've talked about. And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are.And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future. By the way -- we may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it. Thank you very much.(Applause)

Get Ready World Indian's are on their way to Conquer 

Some of the interesting people commented Interestingly about the Talk's of Mr.Tharoor.

***In the era of Google you don't need a well filled mind, what you need is well formed mind. The mind that can reacts to unfamiliar facts & details, that can actually synthesize information that it hasn't studied before. In other words, a mind that can react to bigger examination called life which doesn't actually gives you things that you have prepared for. Familiar objects can be thought of in ways that haven't been thought of before & that way we can move forward in the world...

~ Dr. Shashi Tharoor

Vandini Sharma said - ***In any case, we have elected PM Modi after a corrupt Congress ruling for years. I can safely say, he has done more work in a  year than Congress has for 10. There also, there is more to India then just politics. Open the newspaper, you will find foundations of good Samaritans, charity events. I agree we have a lot to improve on, but we people are at least taking steps.

Mr.Gajendra Gupta said -  ***well said ....ya INDIA IS COMING.Our future is bright.

Mr.Kuma Nidhi said that - ***Sir, the information provided in your video is excellent, but you should also explain that research environment, quick judgement to victimized citizen make India less habitat for innocent people. You should come up with law reforms for quick judgement over disputes, violent less India etc.

Thanks.

 Parashar Krishnamachari said - ***My big fundamental issue with this talk is that it amounts to a collection of platitudes.  Sure, the overall message is more or less agreeable and the facts cited to support them are all fine, but that data simply supports that the "problem" exists, not why it exists.  At the end, all he really says is "let's do Y instead of X" without so much as a hint as to how to actually get to Y or why India is doing X in the first place.

He mentions, for instance, students asking the teacher "why not?" rather than "why?"...  you think that will fly in a culture that has a rigidly hierarchical and absolutist view of authority?  Granted, the corporate sector in India is transitioning away from this due to heavy Western influence, but there's not even the slightest sign of change in education.  Even at the university level in India to this day, if a student points out that the teacher made a mistake, rather than being rewarded for his/her insight, the student gets punished, and given negative marks against his grade for the crime of insubordination.  It doesn't matter if a child is inquisitive enough to think outside of the box if we don't have a culture that rewards it.  It will never matter that we have students who can integrate ideas together expertly if we don't have a system that is concerned with their ability to do so as opposed to simply "doing as you're told."  A kid can ask "why not?" all he wants and it's an eminently useless effort as long as the answer remains a slap on the bum for asking such a question. He talks about the efforts to pour more money from the central gov't into state schools, but he never gets into what actually happens with that money?  Or why is it that said money isn't apparently sufficient?  What does it mean to move more money through gov't in a country where the gov't at all levels is infamous for the fact that corruption is the rule rather than the exception? Why is the enrollment ratio poor as you go up the levels?  Is it the lack of expansion efforts or the fact that extreme poverty and extreme income inequality has forced kids into dire straits such that they cannot afford to stay in school?  What about the fact that for so many who entered in above the "appropriate age" simply because they had no opportunities earlier, they have a harder time, and therefore give up?  What about all the kids who enroll at the college level, but commit suicide because of the way our programs are designed to pressure them?  And the best he talks about here is ... Oh, we've started attacking the symptoms by doing things like community colleges!  And it'll totally work!  Trust me! Yeah, right...  people will still teach at community colleges with the same authoritative BS method they use everywhere else because that's the culture of India.  Girls will still be coerced by their profs to trade their bodies for grades because that's viewed as acceptable (They're only women, not people!).  People of lower caste will still be harassed and mistreated and largely driven out because that is in line with the standing norms of society.  Poor people will still never get the chance to climb out of their lot in life because nothing will be done to actually reward them for even seeking a proper education or vocational training for that matter.  Get them in all you want, but unless their respective families are dead (i.e., they have no one to look after), and you're paying their way through school, you can't expect them to still stick around.

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