Tips on Telling the Tale. TED Talks.

A fabulous collection of TED Talks on Story telling. Strongly recommended 
Tips on telling a tale. TED Talks.

Dan Gilbert: Why do we make bad decisions?

This is a very interesting talk by the Harvard based, Dan Gilbert. It explores how human beings take decisions and how our perceptions are biased. How do we perceive value and how do we make choices, our concept of time, how do we manage expectations .. etal.
It has implications for strategic planners and account planners. It helps us understand how to reposition products, understand why it is always difficult to move a popular brand up the value chain to a premium position, how consumer contests work and the possibilities go on.. Once again TED gives us an excellent presentation....

Dan Gilbert on human behavior and micro economics

Economic Development in India and China vis a vis the UK and USA

 Hans Rosling on the rise of China and India over the years. Witty, interesting and a simple take on the linear data involving growth in life expectancy and per capita income. He manages to illustrate how political changes affected these two development indicators and how things are expected to pan out. The key points to be noted include the impact of war on the economy and how  skewed economic growth can be a dampener.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html