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  TED 2012 | February 22, 2012 
At the sold-out TED 2012 conference, Lavin Agency president David Lavin will host a special session for TED Fellows and interested TED speakers on how the speaking industry works—drawn from his 25 years of experience. “I’ve prepared a few stories,” says Lavin, a bracingly honest and quotable speaker in his own right. “But mostly, I’ll be there to answer all questions. There are always a lot of questions.”
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Elsewhere at TED 2012, four Lavin speakers will take the stage. Susan Cain will speak on “the power of introverts in a world that cant’ stop talking;” her book, Quiet, recently debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list. Jonathan Haidt, author of the upcoming book The Righteous Mind, will address politics through the prism of moral psychology: what ... INNOVATION | February 21, 2012 
The concept of Groupthink—sometimes called brainstorming—is under serious scrutiny these days. Recently, Lavin speakers Susan Cain and Jonah Lehrer each published critiques of this popular default approach to idea-creation that, for the past half century at least, has held the corporate world in its grip. Cain, writing in The New York Times, argues that it is solitude, and not forced collaboration (the foundation of brainstorming), that is better for creativity. Cain writes:
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Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone. Our schools should teach children to work with others, but also to work on their own for sustained periods of time. And we ... THE INTERNET | February 20, 2012 In a recent Atlantic online article, Alexandra Samuel argues that the "Unplug" movement—the call to disconnect ourselves from social networks and give up the internet—is an unrealistic fix to the stresses of our online lives. The real solution, Samuel says, is to spend more attention to our online lives, and to "approach our time online with the same kind of intention and integrity we bring to our best offline interactions." "Unplugging" is not realistic because our online life and offline life are inextricably linked: "The offline world is now utterly defined by networks...from the pace of our work to the flow of our money." Samuel asks: why is time management and resource allocation only applicable to our offline activities? Why do we treat our online ... POLITICS | February 17, 2012 
Three months ago, Lavin speaker Reggie Love—the long-time personal aide to President Barack Obama—left the White House to pursue an MBA at Wharton. This week, New York’s Daily Intel went in search of Obama’s new personal aide, or “body man,” only to discover that “there IS no New Reggie.” Former West Wing staff members tell the magazine that Reggie’s previous duties will instead be filled by up to three staff members, at least for now.
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Here’s New York: Part of what makes it hard to move on is that, well, Reggie was so great! Not only did Obama and Love have what the former staffer described as a big-brother, little-brother relationship, and share plenty of extracurricular interests, but Love was known for his exceptional and universal kindness. Obama liked the way that reflected on his administration.”In his life ... WORLD IN 2050 | February 16, 2012 
“Everyone wants to predict the future, but Laurence Smith actually does.” -Los Angeles Times
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UCLA geoscientist Laurence C. Smith talks about why, in the next forty years, the north will become increasingly vital to global survival and economic prosperity. The Guggenheim Fellow's critically lauded book, The World in 2050, provides a bracing analysis of four major forces—demography, natural resources, globalization, and climate change—that will dictate what kind of world we'll see by mid-century. Smith is one of the first to put particular focus on how northern nations, perhaps counter-intuitively, will fare incredibly well in this new world made warmer by climate change. From the The World in 2050's publisher: Smith's core argument is that these four global forces put unprecedented pressure on the world to expand north. The planet's northern ... ELETION 2012 | February 15, 2012 
A new Chronicle of Higher Education article profiles Jonathan Haidt, and explores, in depth, his influential work on moral psychology and its impact on politics. For years, Haidt was a partisan liberal. But, frustrated by John Kerry's lackluster 2004 Presidential bid, he began researching the role of moral psychology in determining people’s political affiliations. What he found changed his political views: he "emerged a centrist who believes that 'conservatives have a more accurate understanding of human nature than do liberals.'" His research led him to re-think morality. Here’s the Chronicle:
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Haidt and his colleagues synthesize anthropology, evolutionary theory, and psychology to propose six innate moral foundations: care/harm, fairness/cheating, liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, ... AWESOME | February 14, 2012 
With his TED Talk inching toward one million views, Neil Pasricha—the #1 international bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series—continues to travel North America and speak to audiences about seeing the awesome in the everyday. Here’s Pasricha, talking about overcoming one's darkest moments at a recent university keynote:
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I don’t think it’s about forcing yourself out of dark spots, that isn’t realistic, it isn’t possible and I don’t think it’s desirable, there’s no such thing as always optimistic. So I think what’s important is that when you’re having a dark day, a down day, that there’s something awesome at the end of it. [Knowing that] when you’re done feeling like this, you will feel good again, that usually is enough.The interview gives us a good idea of ...
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  GAYLE LEMMON at TEDxWOMEN 
"If you're going to talk about jobs, then you have to talk about entrepreneurs," says
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
"And if you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women."
Lemmon is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and a Contributing
Editor-at-Large for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She has devoted her life to shedding light on the resiliency
of female entrepreneurs, and their remarkable power to reshape local economies. By recognizing and investing
in these female breadwinners, Lemmon says, we can help grow economies of all development levels around the world.
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