For anyone who has yet to watch Derek Sivers’ TED talk on ‘how to start a movement’, I highly recommend it[i]. A lone dancer at a music festival dances on a hill, seemingly oblivious to the sardonic glances of fellow festival goers. Before long though, the lone dancer has become a leader at the heart of a whirling mass of ecstatic dancers. As Mr. Sivers points out in his presentation, ‘a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed.’ Read more …

Do individuals make history? Or are larger forces at work, sometimes crystalising through personalities, but sometimes not? Read more …