Your Ultimate Guide to TED Talks for Govies

Some ideas are worth spreading—this is the idea behind TED, a global community that spreads knowledge through short but powerful talks. TED talks are a great way to learn a lot about a topic in a short period of time. However, since the inception of TED in 1984, more than 2,400 talks have been given, making it difficult to choose which ones to watch.

For this week’s DorobekINSIDER, we compiled a list of TED talks best suited to help government employees do their jobs better, breaking them down into three categories:

Technology

• Hackers: the internet’s immune system, Karen Elazari
• The incredible inventions of intuitive AI, Maurice Conti
• The year open data went worldwide, Tim Berners-Lee
• Coding for a better government, Jennifer Pahlka
• This app makes it fun to pick up litter, Jeff Kirschner
• What a driverless world could look like, Wanis Kabbaj
• Get ready for hybrid thinking, Ray Kurzweil
• Don’t fear intelligent machines. Work with them, Garry Kasparov
• How we can find ourselves in data, Giorgia Lupi
• Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are), Danny Dorling
• The beauty of data visualization, David McCandless

Innovation

• How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual, Haley Van Dyck
• New York’s streets? Not so mean anymore, Janette Sadik-Khan
• The era of open innovation, Charles Leadbeater
• A few ways to fix a government, Charity Wayua
• How I’m fighting bias in algorithms, Joy Buolamwini
• Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi internet, Herald Haas
• How new technology helps blind people explore the world, Chieko Asakawa
• What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer, Salvatore Iaconesi
• How the internet will (one day) transform government, Clay Shirky
• What time is it on Mars?, Nagin Cox
• Government—investor, risk-taker, innovator, Mariana Mazzucato

Career and Leadership

• How to manage for collective creativity, Linda Hill
• 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term, Ari Wallach
• Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume, Regina Hartley
• Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness, Michele L. Sullivan
• A radical experiment in empathy, Sam Richards
• Why you will fail to have a great career, Larry Smith
• Know your worth, and then ask for it, Casey Brown
• Should you live for your resume or your eulogy?, David Brooks
• Learning from leadership’s missing manual, Fields Wicker-Miurin
• Why we have too few women leaders, Sheryl Sandberg
• All it takes is 10 mindful minutes, Andy Puddicombe
• The career advice you probably didn’t get, Susan Colantuono
• How to make work-life balance work, Nigel Marsh
• On being a woman and a diplomat, Madeleine Albright

 So, what are you waiting for? Click on one of the talks above and get inspired to effect some change today. And if we missed one of your favorite talks, be sure to post the link in the comments!