TED Part I : Week #4 Begins

How art technology and design inform creative leaders

1. The TED organization is about completing their mission of "Ideas Worth Spreading."

2. The purpose of their website is to bring the experience of TED conferences online for anyone to watch. They have a new talk put up every weekday and you can search videos with filters.

3. The topics of most interests to use would be technology, design, and then business. We constantly need to be educated about the technology that surrounds us. Design is important especially in the engineering class we are taking, designing is a crucial part to making something.  Business is also important because if you want to get a job in a company being able to understand business might make you look more educated and qualified.

4. Three videos that relate to question 3: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes, How great leaders inspire actions, and Why architects need to use their ears. The first choice kind of shows if you take aside a few minutes and observe greatly it might be beneficial. The second video is because great leaders influence us to become better problem solvers. The last one's tittle is what really speaks to me, I believe in many jobs it is necessary to use as many senses you are able too.

5.

• MIT- learned a lot about computers
• Art school- he made a human computer: People play the different parts of the computer
• How to intertwine and connect teachnology, design, art, and leadership
• We are stuck in a loop of technology
• Difference between content and form design: "Fear"
• Content of this word is the definition, how it makes someone feel, and how it is spelled
• Form is the font, the size, the color, the position on the page
• Form can change the some of the content by changing the appearance (when the font is big it stands out makes you notice the words meaning, but if its font is funny the meaning can be so much less to you)
• Art: is about asking questions
• Sometimes doing something the old way is better than new ways (at an art school the students can not draw from pictures, they even use animals that have died and been stuffed). This is an example of how now many people use photographs or 3D graphics
• "Old" combined with "New" makes "Good"
• Leadership: is about asking a lot of questions because we aren't so simple anymore
• Traditional Leaders: love to avoid mistakes, and  want to be right
• Creative Leaders: loves to learn from mistakes, and hope to be right
• Leaders connect improbable connections and hope something will happen
• Powershop- is kind of like a brainstorm chart
• A CEO starts in the middle and are connected by lines to different branches in the company and each point representing a branch is red(poor) or green(good) to show how they're doing. Then you can click on those points and they expand to more lines connecting other little departments inside those. If one of those is clicked it opens up more lines connecting people to the branches. Some of those people will have lines connected to other branches and departments.
• When you are viewing the people you can look at the relations you have with them (when you have called, emailed, texted, or went out to coffee).
• These things can help leaders create better connections or different ways to lead better.

6. You can get involved with this by letting yourself experiencce these three concepts and try to add them to the way you are a leader. I think you would only need to open yourself up to learn in other areas and then work on combining these new things to the way to lead.