Helping Community by Mentoring at Sharif University’s Startup Weekend

Reza Ghiabi | رضا غیابی

Sharif University of Technology’s Entrepreneurship Center hosted a Startup Weekend in Tehran from June 25 to 27. To empower the community, Reza Ghiabi has been a volunteer mentor at the event.  Industrial, electrical, and computer engineering students participated in the three-day event, according to Iran Daily’s Thursday edition. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event, which […]

Reza Ghiabi has Been Featured by the TEDxInnovations Blog

Reza Ghiabi | رضا غیابی

As a veteran TEDx organizer, Ghiabi answers to 5 key questions of TEDxInnovations Blog. What do you wish someone told you about managing a team before you organized a TEDx event? Ghiabi: That it is not “management.” It takes “leadership” instead. It cannot feel in any way like an obligation. What have you learned about […]

THE Secret to Success | What I Learned from John Wooden

If I were to ask you, “Are you successful?” What would be your response? Most people would recognize success as completing an objective or reaching a goal. I’m often amazed at how many people define success as achieving material positions or money. As it turns out, this is some sort of winning but NOT success at all!

Reza Ghiabi Has Been Featued by The TEDBlog

Reza Ghiabi | رضا غیابی

Becky Chung wrote an article at the TED Blog interviewing Reza, about how TEDxTehran’s model of mentorship helps TEDx grow in Iran: Ghiabi’s TED journey started when he first stumbled across the talk, “The Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz. From that point on, he was hooked. He began volunteering to help translate TED Talks […]

Maslow ‘s Hierarchy of Needs, in Reverse

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was helpful in 20th Century management but needs shouldn’t effect our vision when doing creative work. The most creative people prefer to minimize satisfying their basic “needs” in order to focus on their “wants”.