A classic TED Talk on making your ideas spread.

Certainly, there are no shortage of great ideas and inventions out there, but rather a shortage of great execution. That includes not only getting the right people on your bus, not only designing products and services with your customers and their needs, habits, tendencies, circumstances, etc. in mind, but also getting in front of customers, investors, and colleagues in a way that will compel them to get on board.

If you haven't already read it, the Heath Brothers's "Made to Stick" is another fabulous "how to" along these lines. Enjoy!

I recently had the pleasure of returning to my college workplace - a resort in northwestern MN - for an alumni reunion. The work at this resort was far from being inherently satisfying or intellectually stimulating. Yet, the job brought an enormous amount of joy to my life. The people I worked with were intelligent and talented, and we were given and created opportunities to play, take risks, and put our minds together to solve all kinds of problems - large and small. Those interactions engendered levels of both enjoyment and interpersonal trust that I have yet to find in any other employer. Play is vitally important to self-actualization in our personal and professional lives, and yet somewhere between childhood, adolescence and adulthood we seem to forget how to play. The following three TED talks pay tribute to this idea in amazing and inspiring ways. Please watch and have fun with them!

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html