My first visit of a TEDx event was definitely worth it. I went there thx to my boyfriend and my employer Cisco (main sponsor of the event), nice combination.
Overall a lot of great speekers and topics, good organization given the fact that number of participants was twice higher than expected, and I´ve written down a lot of interesting and innovative thoughts.
Some ideas or facts I really found interesting:
- Tomáš Baťa was criticised for giving high responsible jobs to very young people.
- You can start being entrepreneur at every age, even at 65, Mrs. Garlikova is a good example of this.
- Managers get hired thanks to their education, knowledge and experience, but they get fired due to lack of social skills and inability to work with their teams.
- Most important decisions in our lives are done through emotions (think of various situations yourself: how have you decided about your field of study, first job, future husband/wife, name for your children, location of your house).
- Gallup study: 80% of employed people do not like tasks in their jobs or their job overall, their life is shaped by the very known abb. TGIF.
- Companies sometimes treat their employees as their parents did when they were small children (do not do this, do not dress like this, you have to ask before you do that...), interesting paradigm :-)....vs. concept of free companies becoming more popular nowadays /hiring self-managing individuals, etc.
- Stress and learning are two basic reflexes or reactions keeping us alive. People usually cannot learn anything properly when they are stressed because these two reflexes work in different situations.
- It´s important to give children chance to lead something on their own and to success or learn from mistakes because they are the future leaders.
- Usage of alternative education sources will definitely grow (google, wiki, blogs, e-learnings). Parents will try to look for good education for their children outside of the old education system.
- Great idea: Granny cloud - retired women teaching kids online 1-2 hours per day.
- Micro-loans in developing countries have 90% payback rate. People are willing to take them even with huge interest. Micro-savings are banking products with big market potential. In some countries, collectors of these savings come every day to collect tiny amount of money because if people kept the money even few days, they would spend it on something else than they are saving for.
And there was more...this is just overview of what got stuck in my head :-).
One thing where my opinion is different from one of the presenters:
- "When teaching small children: marks and grades make children feel bribed for learning stuff. Schools transform children in little bribers". This is too strong statement for me. I definitely do not believe that grades mean everything, however people are compared to each other everywhere they go (school, university, labor market, employment, family, relationships). And children should learn that sometimes others can be better than them and they should feel proud of extraordinary achievements by obtaining nice evaluation.
