Hybrid Thinking Takes Off at JetBlue
October 21, 2010
Photo Credit: Nikolas Koenig for Fast Company At Jump, we often run into hybrid thinkers who are gifted but professionally restless. They are the sort of people who don’t really hit their stride until they find a work environment that lets their unboxed imaginative style discover its own shape and purpose. That’s how I imagine
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Creating Sustainable Impact Through Empathy
October 15, 2010
On October 15th, The Donors Forum of Wisconsin hosted its 11th annual statewide conference on philanthropy. And this year, Jump’s Udaya Patnaik was on hand to provide the conference’s morning keynote address. His talk focused on the power of empathy to inform effective grantmaking and to build stronger foundations. To learn more, click here.
Read moreWhen Medicine and Art Mix, Care Pours Out
October 14, 2010
Photo Credit: Thor Swift for The New York Times It’s one thing to have a multidisciplinary background. It’s quite another to use your diverse experiences to inform your thinking across disciplinary boundaries. For example, a designer with an MBA who doesn’t infuse business strategy with a little creativity isn’t really embracing hybrid thinking. And the
Read moreNot New, But Needed More Than Ever
October 13, 2010
After first introducing folks to hybrid thinking via my Fast Company blog last August, the commentary started flowing in. One blogger in particular caught my attention. She noted that the notion of hybrid thinking isn’t necessarily new, and thus wondered about the importance of bringing it to the forefront now. Here’s my long overdue response…
Read moreA New Take on Technology and Strategy
October 5, 2010
At Jump, we’ve got lots of folks exploring a wide variety of topics on any given day. From healthcare, to technology, to cars, to the next generation of consumer packaged goods. Often, our work in those fields merge to create entirely new ways of looking at the world. And that’s certainly the case with my
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New Business Boot Camp
October 1, 2010
Navigating the path to growth can be an ambiguous undertaking. Where do you start? What questions should you ask? And what ideas make sense for your organization? Confronted with ambiguity, many companies simply stall, and never commit to the seemingly “far-out” ideas needed to drive new growth. Jump’s New Business Boot Camp is an inspiring
Read moreWanted: Creative Leaders for Energy
September 30, 2010
In late July, I wrote an opinion piece for CNN.com about the strategy lessons we could learn from the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of you have since asked for the article to be reposted here, as it explores the role hybrid thinking can play when it comes to tackling some of
Read moreIn Times of Change, Think Like a Grolar Bear
September 24, 2010
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And that’s certainly the case in the wild, where life usually finds a way to survive – even in the most ambiguous conditions. Above we see a Wolphin, a hybrid of the dolphin and false killer whale species. For quite some time, I’ve enjoyed making the connection between
Read moreRegulating the Markets like a Physicist
September 22, 2010
At Jump, we often view hybrid thinking as the deliberate mash-up of business strategy, social research and design to tackle highly ambiguous problems for businesses looking to grow. But that doesn’t mean hybrid thinkers need to be limited to those fields. As I noted in my last post, technology analysts at Gartner are currently using
Read moreOur New Blog on the Antidote to Ambiguity
September 21, 2010
When multiple disciplines inhabit the same brain, something magical starts to happen. The disciplines themselves start to mutate. They hybridize. We start practicing business like a designer. We shape technology like a culturalist. And we start thinking about the most complex problems that plague our societies like an entrepreneur. Enter the world of hybrid thinking.
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