Ivan Seidenberg provides examples of innovative and creative ways that non-linear thinking was utilized at Verizon. He talks about how leadership decided to separate the wireless business from the telephone business based on their view that wireless was going to grow exponentially. Seidenberg points out that Verizon was the first company to fully recognize the future of wireless technology and invest in its development.
The New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. NYSCI was founded at the 1964–65 World’s Fair and has evolved into New York’s center for interactive science, serving a half million students, teachers, and families each year. NYSCI serves schools, families and underserved communities in the New York City area, offering informal, hands-on learning through various products and services that use the “design-make-play” method of bringing delight and play to educating Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
