In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

Группа А-11/2 закончила погружение в глубины человеческой природы. Поскольку сегодня время самый ценный ресурс, проект состоялся под девизом "Кошелёк или жизнь!". Не все, кто хотели войти в состав этой группы "дайверов", смогли вписать погружение в традиционно трудный период декабря-января. Траты, планы на новогодний отдых, обещания друзьям и близким - всё это легло на одну чашу весов и соревновалось с необходимостью изменить свою профессиональную жизнь к лучшему. Кто-то ждал погружения в данную тему несколько лет, кто-то удачно вскочил на подножку уходящего поезда; инструктору группы Елене Маркушиной пришлось непросто. Но всё получилось. Еще несколько петербуржцев овладели самым эффективным на сегодня инструментом анализа способностей и мотивов людей в бизнес-сообществах и смогут применить новые знания в своей работе.

I've just finished reading the last Taleb's book "On Robustness and Fragility". It is written as an answer to (i) criticism and (ii) 2008 crisis. The same idea of Black Swans but there are ten tenets there: how to create the society robust to Black Swans. Taleb's suggestions include getting rid of bonuses and reengineering the current economics (simultaneously with discarding all so-called experts in economics). It seems to me that his ideas correlate closely with ideas of Hopper brotheres, Korten's ideas of new economics, Reich's ideas, etc. So the process of forming a new look at the future economy and its basics is spreading out...

Vladimir Sper: "I've just finished reading Dan Pink's book "Drive". It's about people motivation - acute issue in many organizations throughout the world. I think it's worth reading. The main ideas one can find in the following TED video. What is valuable in the book additionally to the video - the author's suggestions on the implementation of his ideas in companies, education, kid's brining up, self-management".

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ... (Filmed at TEDxPugetSound.) "How do you explain when things don't go as we assume? Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions? For example: Why is Apple so innovative? Year after year, after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition. And yet, they're just a computer company. They're just like everyone else. They have the same access to the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media. Then why is it that they seem to have something different? Why is it that Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights Movement? He wasn't the only man who suffered in a pre-civil rights America, and he certainly wasn't the only great orator of the day. Why him? And why is it that the Wright brothers were able to figure out controlled, powered man flight when there were certainly other teams who were better qualified, better funded ... and they didn't achieve powered man flight, and the Wright brothers beat them to it. There's something else at play here".

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.