PickVidsBest Management, leadership & organizations Videos
The 79 Management, leadership & organizations videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 6 intermediate, 70 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, LeadDev, Talks at Google.
Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown
CGP Grey's animated adaptation of The Dictator's Handbook, explaining how rulers stay in power by keeping a small group of key supporters happy rather than ruling fairly.
Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"
Richard Cook's short Velocity 2013 talk on resilience in complex adaptive systems, arguing systems operate near the edge of failure and that the surprise is how rarely they fail.
Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small
Ed Catmull of Pixar speaks at Stanford's 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference on running a creative company.
RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
An RSA Animate whiteboard adaptation of Dan Pink's talk on what motivates people at work.
The Only Unbreakable Law
Casey Muratori's lecture, originally given at the Technical University of Madrid, arguing that Conway's Law is the only viable candidate for a true law of software architecture.
Your Brain Thinks Your Whole Home Is One Room
CGP Grey argues that your brain treats a whole home as one room during lockdown, blurring work, rest and leisure.
Principles of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017
Bryan Cantrill's Monktoberfest 2017 talk on leadership and organizational principles, ranging from the Gettysburg Address to Uber and Amazon.
I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day gives a talk to an aerospace audience, comparing how Apollo was engineered and managed with NASA's Artemis program.
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut tours SpaceX's Starbase with Elon Musk as guide.
Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound
Simon Sinek's TEDx talk arguing that great leaders and companies inspire action by communicating why they do something before how or what.
Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer
Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman argue that the 'genius programmer' ideal harms collaboration.
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
An excerpt of Simon Sinek on Inside Quest discussing millennials in the workplace.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek | TED
Simon Sinek's TED talk presents the 'golden circle' model: great leaders and companies inspire action by starting with why they do something, before how or what.
How to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016
Nickolas Means tells the story of United Airlines Flight 232, which lost all flight control yet saved more than half its passengers.
Mike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1
Astronaut Mike Mullane explains normalisation of deviance, where teams gradually come to accept violations of their own safety standards.
High Altitude Leadership | Chris Warner | Talks at Google
Climber Chris Warner talks at Google about his book on high altitude leadership and the 2007 K2 expedition, where eighteen climbers summited and two died.
How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
A conference presentation by Bert Hubert on how companies lose their technological edge and become outsourcing hubs.
Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
Moishe Lettvin, a former Google engineer, shares lessons from 250 interviews and his time on the hiring committee.
The Energy Project | Tony Schwartz | Talks at Google
Tony Schwartz of The Energy Project speaks at Google about managing energy rather than time.
Why our generals were more successful in World War II than in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan
Thomas Ricks's Nimitz Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley asks why US generals did better in World War II than in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq and Afghanistan.
Avoid These Words (And Not Just at Work)
Adam Savage answers viewer questions on dealing with condescending colleagues, focusing on dismissive phrases such as 'why don't you just' and 'I would have'.
If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
A 1994 talk by systems thinker Russ Ackoff, who knew W.
Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek's 99U talk on why leaders earn trust by putting their team's safety ahead of their own, drawing on biology and anthropology.
Old Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)
A podcast episode of Arrested DevOps with Andrew Clay Shafer and Bryan Cantrill, featuring Cantrill's rant on integrity in companies and technology.