Messages from Leaders
Hear in ten minutes what a leader learned in ten years. Every video carries a real experience from inside a profession.
Why video?
The best source on a profession is the person living it. In these short videos leaders speak in their own words: how they started, what they found hard and what they would change looking back.
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Where do you start? With "why".
Simon Sinek · TED
A leader who cannot explain why they do the work cannot pull a team along either. Sinek explains the "golden circle" here.
Not talent — grit
Angela Lee Duckworth · TED
The research showing that what separates people who reach long-term goals is perseverance, not IQ.
Connecting the dots backwards
Steve Jobs · Stanford University
The commencement speech on how a career cannot be planned forwards, only understood backwards.