TED is an amazing resource of intelligent talks given by speakers about subjects across the board.  These are some of my favorites:

1)  http://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world.html - "The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng -- and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity, and calls for a stronger culture of “smart failure."

This video hit home for me being in the IT industry - the amount of change and influx of information has become quite overwhelming for me as an IT professional.  There are so many different frameworks these days for different layers of the application layer, open source, MS, Oracle, ETC.  Eddie talks about this influx of information and how at some point, the learning curve flattened below the amount of incoming information.  He presents the tips of the icebergs for new concepts in dealing with this influx of info in terms of business.  Great watch.

2)  http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html - This talk is amazing to me having done some work in the market industry.  Kevin describes how algorithms have started to dictate how we communicate as a culture, or rather, how algorithms have started to dictate how we lay down infrastructure for their own communication.  By far the majority of trading within the world's stock market are algorithmic in nature, this is something that should be analyzed - feared perhaps.

"Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control."

3)  This video is amazing to me now that I have children - not only does Deb take a look at language development, the information gleaned from this research lends itself to some amazing thoughts outside of language development.  Think social media analysis combined with Big Data.

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

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."