Converse to Serendipity

It is towards the end of Pagan Kennedy’s New York Times Sunday Review piece, Cultivating the Art of Serendipity, that she hits upon an essential catalyst between the unnoticed and the discovered: Conversation. Kennedy wonders about the possibilities that may arise in...

Creating Community in the Cafeteria

A recent Harvard Business Review article here found that, “Firefighters who eat together do their jobs better than those who don’t.” The researchers found a significant positive correlation between eating together and team performance. Cooperative behavior...

Hopes for YP Summit

In planning my day at the Omaha YP Summit on Wednesday, I considered what I hoped myself and other attendees could gain from the event. As I reflected, Jon Gertner’s True Innovation article on Bell Labs came to mind. Gertner’s piece elegantly articulated...