The Empact100 recognizes the top 100 companies run by young entrepreneurs age 30 or younger who impact our economy through job creation, innovation, and philanthropy. In 2011, several Empact100 honorees took a Pledge at the White House to give back to entrepreneurship.

Watch the Michael Gerber, author of E-Myth interview at the Empact Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit.

From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. At TEDxEast, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.

Source: Mashable and Venture Studio

While playing for the Tennessee Valley Vipers in the Arena Football League, and pursuing his dream of playing football professionally, Lewis Howes broke his wrist diving for a pass. He gutted out the rest of the season, playing through his injury, but underwent career-ending surgery in the offseason. For the next six months he wore a full-arm cast and went about trying to answer the lingering question, “What now?”

He didn’t have a back up plan — it was football or nothing.

Source: Pragmatic Capitalism

Marketing genius Seth Godin says the world is changing faster than ever and people aren’t adapting fast enough. He says as the industrial age transforms into the technological age your entire mentality has to change. You have to adapt to your surroundings if you want to win the race to the top. Read more here

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Michael Jordan to the Max is an American documentary released in IMAX in 2000. The film is about the life and career of basketball player Michael Jordan, focusing mainly on him during the 1998 NBA Playoffs. It is narrated by Laurence Fishburne.
The film includes appearances by numerous celebrities and professional athletes including Phil Jackson, Doug Collins, Bob Costas, Bill Murray, Ken Griffey, Jr., Steve Kerr, Spike Lee, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Ahmad Rashad, and Pat Riley.

A Great Motivation from the Basketball Great Air Jordan! A Must Watch!

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Daniel Pink on “the surprising science of motivation,” a TED talk that is one of many resources Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher and author, uses in this post.

Today, in lieu of a lesson plan, The Learning Network, New York Times – Education, has invited Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher and author, to write a guest post that brings together a number of recent Times and Learning Network pieces about motivation — and shows practical ways teachers can use them to help students learn to exert self-control, gain self-confidence and motivate themselves to learn and achieve. Read full post here

Entrepreneurship is nothing if not challenging and exciting. In this video Jason Nazar, the CEO and co-founder of Docstoc, lays out the 21 golden rules that aspiring entrepreneurs need to follow if they wish to overcome the inevitable hardships that new ventures bring. The presentation was given to a group of students studying entrepreneurship at Jason’s alma-mater, the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Rather than simply listing cliché business lessons, Jason shares personal stories explaining how he arrived at each of the 21 rules and how you can use them in your own life. He doesn’t try to mask the challenges associated with entrepreneurship, but he does demystify the process of starting with nothing and ending up with a successful company. More importantly, he explains how you develop the attitude necessary to become a successful entrepreneur.

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.

Read Simon Sinek’s book