TEDxKent - Bill Burton - 01/18/10

Bill Burton gives an entertaining talk about how to have a Christmas No. 1 single.

Bill is a specialist in Communications, Leadership and Management Development, Sales and Coaching for personal and organisational effectiveness and has worked with clients such as Fortnum and Mason, Thames Water, Securicor, NTL, BOC Gases, Oxford University Press, Barclays, the Association of Accounting Technicians, Symbian, Total, Société Générale, Scottish Power, Linklaters, Burberry, Microsoft and Reed Elsevier.
Recent projects have included designing and implementing an international recruitment programme, designing a blended e-learning and classroom based account management course as well as creating a major bespoke client service programme. Bill's expertise lies in analysing training and development needs as well as working one-to-one or with teams to improve sales, management and interpersonal skills. William also specialises in coaching for performance improvement and skills development.

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[mattewmarshall]

you have an awesome video..thanks for sharing!

[ian916fun]

"Killing in the name of" is one of the best anti racism songs ever produced, it is only offensive to those who support the KKK or those that abuse their positions of power. The primary target was the LAPD. This speech is perhaps a great example of TED not being the pinnacle of what it thinks it is, - this speech is so "dad dancing at the disco". The facts around what this song stands for would have been far more noteworthy than the view of The Sun newspaper!

[ben29mc]

Yeah I like the sentiment, but to slip in that Rage's music is "offensive" without really touching on the other sides to it and not to mention at it's core the music is about peace, justice & freedom, and to kind of leave "offensive" hanging out there means you don't even understand Rage anyway. An 'Idiot' Joe supporter who heard "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" may think it is offensive but anyone who knows anything would see beyond. I know I'm nit-picking, but wanted to make that point

[chylland]

Interesting. Roundabout way to make a point about how you shouldn't limit yourself to what you *think you can achieve, but I find stuff like that fascinating! And I enjoyed it!! (And I bought 6 copies of the RAGE single)