Video and Multimedia

This document provides you with video suggestions (along with the web links), for use throughout the change course. 

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The Beauty of Data Visualization - 21:27 minutes
TED talk by David McCandless, on the value of visualizing data in order to draw new meaning and insights from complex data in order to better design, innovate, make better decisions, etc.  Can be a useful video prior to discussing the development of information and metrics to help frame change, change views, and guide change initiatives.

Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work – 12:21
Achor argues that happiness increases productivity.  That increasingly setting goals higher and higher makes us more unhappy and consequently more unproductive.

Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our own decisions? - 17:26
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks - 19:33
The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.