Jeff Smith : Lessons in business ... from prison

                                     

TED 2012

Jeff Smith : Lessons in business ... from prison (transcript)

Summary

Prison is a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.

I've heard that Japanese prisons have better environment than those of other countries. Probably, toothbrush, toothpaste, and some products will be given for free to people who are in prison.  However, our taxes are used and after all, politicians who are involved with prison and markets around it must get some money.

Japanese prisons are too different from the  situation in the TED talk for me to understand well.

I think that what we can do is not to discriminate against people with a background.

And then, if I think that the prison life in the TED talk exchanges our life, ex-prisoners can start to change in prisons' life. They can create systems that in prison, prisoners can use toothbrush and toothpaste with cheap price and  that introduce a job to ex-prisoners.

I hope that the cycle enables all people to be in a win-win situation because in Japan only politicians gain.

Words in this story

hassle / irritating inconvenience.

hustle / busy movement and activity. act quickly, hurry, haste

untapped / (of a resource) not yet exploited or used.

enable /verb/  give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.