ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nilofer Merchant - Corporate director, author
Business innovator Nilofer Merchant thinks deeply about the frameworks, strategies and cultural values of companies.

Why you should listen

Nilofer Merchant has been helping to grow businesses -- from Fortune 500s to web startups -- for 20 years. She’s worked for major companies (like Apple and Autodesk) and early web startups (remember Golive?). Logitech, Symantec, HP, Yahoo, VMWare, and many others have turned to her guidance to develop new product strategies, enter new markets, defend against competitors and optimize revenue.

Today she serves on boards for both public and private companies, and writes books about collaboration, like The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy, and openness -- check out her recent ebook 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra, chosen by Fast Company as one of the Best Business Books of 2012. She also writes for HBR, including the personal and brave essay about a previous attempt on the TED stage: "What I Learned from My TED Talk."

Watch Nilofer's moving TEDxHouston talk on "onlyness" >>

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Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Nilofer Merchat: Imate sestanek? Pojdite na sprehod

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Nilofer Merchant je predlaga skromno idejo, ki ima lahko velik vpliv na vaše življenje in zdravje: naslednjič, ko imate sestanek ga spremenite v sestanek na sprehodu - naj ideje letijo medtem ko hodite in govorite.
- Corporate director, author
Business innovator Nilofer Merchant thinks deeply about the frameworks, strategies and cultural values of companies. Full bio

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bolj od mobilne napravice
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is this, your tushtush.
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whichki is more than we're sleepingspanje, at 7.7 hoursure.
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kar je več časa, kot ga preživimo za spanje, pri 7,7 urah.
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we don't even questionvprašanje how much we're doing it,
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da se sploh ne zavedamo, koliko časa sedimo,
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and because everyonevsi elsedrugače is doing it,
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in ker to delajo vsi drugi,
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it doesn't even occurpojavijo to us that it's not okay.
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nam niti ne pade na misel,
da to ni dobro.
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In that way, sittingsedi has becomepostane
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V tem smislu je sedenje postalo
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the smokingkajenje of our generationgeneracije.
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kajenje naše generacije.
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Of courseseveda there's healthzdravje consequencesposledice to this,
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Seveda temu sledijo posledice v našem zdravju,
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scarystrašno onestiste, besidespoleg tega the waistpas.
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poleg večjega obsega pasu, tudi bolj strašljive,
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kot so rak na dojki ali rak debelega črevesa,
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are directlyneposredno tiedvezani to our lackpomanjkanje of physicalfizično [activitydejavnost],
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ki sta močno povezana
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za kar deset odstotkov.
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SixŠest percentodstotkov for heartsrce diseasebolezen,
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sevensedem percentodstotkov for typetip 2 diabetesdiabetes,
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sedem odstotkov za diabetes drugega tipa,
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za katerim je umrl moj oče.
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Ta statistika bi morala vsakega od nas prepričati,
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to get off our duffHilary Duff more,
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da dvignemo naše riti,
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but if you're anything like me, it won'tne bo.
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ampak če ste mi vsaj malo podobni, vas ne bo.
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What did get me movingpremikanje was a socialsocialno interactioninterakcija.
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Kar me je prisililo h gibanju je druženje.
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SomeoneNekdo invitedpovabljeni me to a meetingsrečanje,
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but couldn'tni mogel manageupravljati to fitfit me in
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vendar me ni mogel povabiti
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to a regularredno sortRazvrsti of conferencekonferenca roomsoba meetingsrečanje, and said,
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na sestanek v sejni sobi in je rekel,
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"I have to walkhodi my dogspsi tomorrowjutri. Could you come then?"
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''Jutri moram sprehoditi pse. Bi lahko prišli takrat?''
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It seemedzdelo se mi je kindvrste of oddčudno to do,
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To dejanje se mi je zdelo malo čudno,
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and actuallydejansko, that first meetingsrečanje, I rememberZapomni si thinkingrazmišljanje,
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na prvem sestanku sem pomislila
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"I have to be the one to askvprašajte the nextNaslednji questionvprašanje,"
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''Jaz moram biti tista, ki postavi naslednje vprašanje,''
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because I knewvedel I was going to huffHuff and puffPuff
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ker sem vedela, da bom sopihala
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duringmed this conversationpogovor.
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med tem pogovorom.
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And yetše, I've takensprejeti that ideaideja and madeizdelane it my ownlastno.
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Pa vendar sem to idejo posvojila in jo naredila za svojo.
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So insteadnamesto tega of going to coffeekava meetingssrečanja
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or fluorescent-litfluorescenčne lit conferencekonferenca roomsoba meetingssrečanja,
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ali v fluorescentno osvetljeni konferenčni sobi,
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I askvprašajte people to go on a walkinghoditi meetingsrečanje,
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ljudi povabim na sestanke ob hoji,
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to the tunemelodijo of 20 to 30 milesmilje a weekteden.
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kar znese od 30 do 50 km na teden.
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It's changedspremenjeno my life.
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To je spremenilo moje življenje.
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But before that, what actuallydejansko happenedse je zgodilo was,
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Pred tem dogodkom
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I used to think about it as,
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sem na to gledala kot na možnost da,
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you could take carenego of your healthzdravje,
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lahko skrbiš za svoje zdravje
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or you could take carenego of obligationsobveznosti,
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ali pa lahko skrbiš za svoje obveznosti.
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and one always cameprišel at the coststroški of the other.
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Zaradi tega, je eno vedno trpelo zaradi drugega.
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So now, severalveč hundredsto of these walkinghoditi meetingssrečanja laterpozneje,
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Zdaj, več kot sto sestankov-sprehodov pozneje,
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I've learnednaučili a fewmalo things.
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sem se naučila nekaj stvari.
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First, there's this amazingneverjetno thing
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about actuallydejansko gettingpridobivanje out of the boxškatla
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that leadsvodi to out-of-the-boxout-of-the-box thinkingrazmišljanje.
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And seconddrugič, and probablyverjetno the more reflectiveodsevna one,
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is just about how much eachvsak of us
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koliko vsak od nas
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can holddržite problemstežave in oppositionugovor
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probleme vidi drugače
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when they're really not that way.
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kot v resnici so.
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And if we're going to solverešiti problemstežave
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and look at the worldsvet really differentlydrugače,
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whetherali it's in governanceupravljanje or businessposlovanje
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naj bo to v vodstvenih položajih, v poslih,
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or environmentalokolje issuesvprašanja, jobdelo creationustvarjanje,
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v okoljskih problemih ali v ustvarjanju služb
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maybe we can think about how to reframereframe those problemstežave
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lahko morda razmislimo tudi o tem,
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as havingimeti bothoboje things be trueresnično.
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saj bi to uresničilo druge ideje.
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Because it was when that happenedse je zgodilo
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with this walk-and-talksprehod in pogovor ideaideja
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ideji o hoji in sestanku
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that things becamepostati doableizvedljivo and sustainabletrajnostno and viableizvedljivo.
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stvari razvile in postale izvedljive, obstojne in uspešne.
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So I startedzačel this talk talkinggovoriti about the tushtush,
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so I'll endkonec with the bottomspodaj lineline, whichki is,
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tako, da bom tudi končala z zadnjim bistvom, ki je:
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walkhodi and talk.
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hoja in pogovor.
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WalkHoje the talk.
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Vodi pogovor.
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and in the way that you do,
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in ko boste to storili,
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you'llboš bringprinesi into your life an entirelypopolnoma newnovo setnastavite of ideasideje.
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boste v življenje prinesli popolnoma nove ideje.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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Translated by Ziva Vidic Licul
Reviewed by Kaja Kren

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nilofer Merchant - Corporate director, author
Business innovator Nilofer Merchant thinks deeply about the frameworks, strategies and cultural values of companies.

Why you should listen

Nilofer Merchant has been helping to grow businesses -- from Fortune 500s to web startups -- for 20 years. She’s worked for major companies (like Apple and Autodesk) and early web startups (remember Golive?). Logitech, Symantec, HP, Yahoo, VMWare, and many others have turned to her guidance to develop new product strategies, enter new markets, defend against competitors and optimize revenue.

Today she serves on boards for both public and private companies, and writes books about collaboration, like The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy, and openness -- check out her recent ebook 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra, chosen by Fast Company as one of the Best Business Books of 2012. She also writes for HBR, including the personal and brave essay about a previous attempt on the TED stage: "What I Learned from My TED Talk."

Watch Nilofer's moving TEDxHouston talk on "onlyness" >>

More profile about the speaker
Nilofer Merchant | Speaker | TED.com