The New Leader | Julia Novy | TEDxStanford

Julia’s talk discusses new forms of leadership in the context of sustainability. Julia Novy is Professor of Practice and Faculty Co-Director of the Sustainability Science and Practice Master’s Program at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability. As Executive Director of the School’s Change Leadership for Sustainability Program, she oversees curriculum development and leads the Strategies for Sustainability professional education program. She is Founder and CEO of Resilience in Action, dedicated to helping 21st century leaders cultivate resilience in their lives, organizations and sectors.
In 2010, Julia was recognized as a distinguished Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Julia earned her B.A. in Human Biology and a minor in African Studies from Stanford University, and her M.Phil. in International Development Studies from the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University. A Fulbright and Marshall Scholar, Julia speaks French, Spanish and Kiswahili. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Mmmmmmm, very interesting. An eye-opening and thought-provoking talk. I particularly liked the example of the smokeless cook stove in Tanzania, which turned out to be a failure because it wasn't adapted to the villagers' lifestyle and did not take into account certain aspects of their culture. It often happens that we assume we know what others want - which might be tha case sometimes, but which sometimes is not. This reminds me of a story I read not long ago in a book on the subject of a branch of psychology called non-violent communication, in which two sisters are fighting over an orange ; their father gets annoyed at them arguing, takes a knife and cuts the orange in half, sure that it was the best solution, which it wasn't for the simple reason that he didn't ask his daughters exactly why they were have this spat (in fact, one daughter wanted the juice of the orange to make a drink whereas the other one wanted the pulp to put in a cake, so cutting the orange in two in reality solved nothing at all). ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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