u|Chief went online and selected five YouTube videos to inspire you for the year ahead.

Margaret Neale: Negotiation – Getting What You Want

The Stanford Graduate School of Business is a great place to start, and this knowledge sharing from Neale is power-packed with insight and instant can-do advice. A powerful speaker, Neale is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Education is key to our future, and Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk is mind-blowing about the potential and capacity for young people to learn. Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England.

Prof Jon Foster Pedley, keynote address, Skills Development Summit 2016

I watched Jon Foster-Pedley’s keynote address at the Skills Development Summit 2016 and was blown away by how he captured his audience and the way he washed his tales of inspiration over them. I grabbed the chance to interview him later that day for an hour-and-a-half and it was a thrill to be exposed to such a beautiful mind. Foster-Pedley is the Dean and Director of Henley Business School, Africa, part of the University of Reading.

Design Thinking: Brainstorm

Brainstorming is big, big, big for our world of disruption and innovation, but no-one seems to know how to do it. Too much talk, too little throwing out of ideas. Here are some great guidelines from the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

CRAZY Ideas That Actually Worked

For a bit of fun and to spark your own imagination for what’s possible, this video celebrates 15 crazy ideas that were created to solve problems. Male train drivers wearing skirts to work… dogs with goggles… and synchronished toilet flushing throughout Bulawayo in Zimbabwe!