C.I.S. Curated Intelligence · Video Collection Thirteen
From Conversation to Cultural Intelligence: Listening, Judgement and the Knowledge Organisations Miss
Ten selected talks that extend the C.I.S. article series from audience understanding and community participation to responsible AI, creative independence and quiet forms of feedback.
Why this collection exists
Organisations often possess more information than understanding. They can count clicks, applications and attendance while missing the language people use, the reasons they hesitate and the experiences that never enter a formal report.
This collection treats conversation as a source of strategic intelligence. Each selection is paired with an original C.I.S. article so viewers can move from an expert perspective to a deeper cultural and practical interpretation.
Video Collection Thirteen · 10 selections
Listen beyond the obvious.
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01 · Audience intelligence
The Human Insights Missing from Big Data
Data can reveal patterns without explaining the lives, language and circumstances that produced them. Wang makes the case for combining scale with close human observation.
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02 · Decision-making
How to Make Hard Choices
Difficult choices are not always solved by discovering one objectively superior option. Chang shows how commitments help people author the reasons by which they move forward.
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03 · Listening
Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!
Sirolli challenges interventions built around outsiders’ assumptions. His central lesson is that useful support begins with listening to the ambitions and knowledge already present.
This external video remains the property of TEDx Talks and its respective creators and rights holders. Cultural Intelligence Studio has selected and contextualised it for educational purposes.
04 · Identity & visibility
The Art of Being Yourself
McHugh examines identity, self-knowledge and the pressure to perform for approval—useful context for becoming visible without manufacturing a false public personality.
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05 · Community
The Art of Community & Belonging
Vogl explores how shared values, boundaries, rituals, stories and routes to contribution help turn an audience into a community with meaningful relationships.
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06 · Trust
We’ve Stopped Trusting Institutions and Started Trusting Strangers
Botsman considers how trust moves between institutions, platforms and people. Visibility can create contact, but confidence depends on credible signals and accountable behaviour.
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07 · Voice & point of view
How to Speak So That People Want to Listen
Treasure connects communication with honesty, authenticity, integrity and care. Technique helps, but a voice becomes meaningful through the values behind it.
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08 · Inclusive design
Belonging at Work: How to Foster Inclusion and Collaboration
Wise introduces design practices for noticing where belonging is strengthened or denied. The session reinforces the need to preserve human choice, access and influence when systems are designed.
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09 · Creative independence
Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling
Wapnick gives language to multidisciplinary lives and nonlinear practices. Creative independence becomes stronger when varied capabilities are supported by an intentional structure.
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10 · Noticing & feedback
The First Secret of Design Is … Noticing
Fadell shows how familiarity makes friction disappear from attention. Deliberate noticing helps organisations see the confusion, workarounds and abandoned journeys their reports miss.
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A practical way to use the collection
Watch. Notice. Apply.
After each video, record one assumption it challenged, one signal your present system may overlook and one decision that could change as a result. Intelligence becomes valuable when it alters attention and action—not merely when it is collected.
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