Ciudad de Las Ideas Conference
Puebla, Mexico
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
—Henry James
Events
Ciudad de Las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 9:00am
Clinton Global Initiative University, Washington, D.C.
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 8:30am
Clinton Global Initiative University
Plenary Session: "The Wisdom of Failure: Building a Culture of Creative Problem Solving"
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
University of California Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 8:00pm
UCSB Arts & Lectures
Jan. 23, 2012
Santa Barbara, California
GRID Conference, Sweden
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 9:00am
Grid Conference
September 4-6, 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
Aarhus Festival, Denmark
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 9:00am
Aarhus Festival
Aarhus, Denmark
September 2, 2011
TED@Cannes
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 9:00am
TED@Cannes
Cannes Lions 58th International Festival of Creativity
Cannes, France
June 22, 2011
The Seminar
Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 5:00pm
South Beach, Florida
June 5-8, 2011

The tale of the Trojan Horse might be apocryphal – no one knows – but it stands out as one of military history’s most famous cautionary tales about yielding to unexamined beliefs. The story goes that the Greeks, frustrated by years of waging an unsuccessful siege on the walled city of Troy, built a massive wooden horse, left it at the city gates as a parting “gift” to their putative victors, and pretended to sail home. Ignoring the naysayers (most famously, the prophet Cassandra and the priest Laocoön, both of whom warned their fellow Trojans that the gift was a trap), Troy’s leaders brought the horse inside the city walls. That night, thirty-odd soldiers who had been concealed inside crept out and opened the gates to the returned Greek army. The Greeks destroyed the city and slaughtered its citizens, thereby ending – and winning – the Trojan War.