Service + Collaboration + The Arts

February 11, 2011

My colleague Jay Newman, along with several other Jumpsters, recently helped organize our annual Martin Luther King Jr. service day event. It’s a day when we close the office to take part in improving and supporting our local community. With a new video highlighting the wonderful events of the day hot of the presses, Jay

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The Return of the Hybrid Museum

January 5, 2011

Not too many days ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a short but intriguing article about an emerging breed of museum curators who use a hybrid approach to examine the human experience in past centuries. Their approach stands in contrast to the more typical, single-themed museums that focus on objects from a particular place and

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In 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

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Dev Patnaik

Dev Patnaik is the CEO and Managing Associate of Jump. He is a trusted adviser to senior executives at some of world’s most admired companies.

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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. This blog is devoted to the notion the hybridity is the antidote to ambiguity.

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