from Eric Zimmer’s popular The One You Feed podcasts: Eric interviews Todd Henry, creator of The Accidental Creative. They discuss… • The One You Feed parable. • What mediocrity means. • The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediocrity. • How little choices become a big choice. • How to pick your battles. • Why “no one

Mentors and Mentoring – What Say You? In preparing this editorial, I took a cursory look at some current and past definitions of Mentors and the Mentoring process, many among them: “Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work,

from Ted Talks: Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know about- but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward  

from Ted Talks: Throughout his three-decade career here at the University of Waterloo, Larry Smith has inspired legions of students to take up the mantle of economics with his passionate and homespun tales of economic wizardry. A renowned story-teller, teacher and youth leadership champion, Larry has also coached and mentored countless numbers of students on

from Ted Talks: Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals  

This is the prepared text of the Stanford University commencement address by Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005 read this great speech here