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AMM
talks
with
Monika Blaumueller
“Art can elevate our spirits by tapping works, they were unable to see what an improvement the word
into what makes us human, coming processor was.
back home to who we are at our core.” Profound opportunities wither on the vine more often than we
like to admit. They might reside in one of our thousands of un-
Renowned business strategist, innovator, thought leader, and read emails, or those we scanned too quickly to have processed.
healthcare pioneer Monika Blaumueller recently delivered a TED Or, some of the essential partners may not believe that they will
Talk on healthcare analytics that led Tex Harris, Distinguished benefit from the change.
Foreign Service Officer, to declare her The Leader of the Third A TED conference facilitates fluid, collaborative thinking. We
Revolution in Humanitarian Aid. travel intentionally, to a physically separate location. We are
Alvin Toffler, Future Shock visionary and co-founder of Arts surrounded by a diverse, curated population that is inclined to
Management Magazine (AMM), predicted the very technology/ collaborate to achieve a specific goal. We explore a range of
information age that we are currently in and the many ways stimulating topics. We experience live music together. It reso-
massive databases might be used to meet challenges. nates among and within us. Collectively, these factors help us to
Indeed, according to Monika Blaumueller, technology has altered be present to the possibility of innovations we are inclined to
the ways that we can best serve humanitarian efforts around the overlook when we are in our every-day mode.
world. We just need to be aware of it and use it. For instance, AMM: The mission of AMM is that since art drives creativi-
in her TED Talk, Monika revealed that an algorithm diagnosed ty, and creativity drives society, it is in humanity’s best interest
the first Ebola outbreak nine days before the World Health Or- that we “give” the future generation the creativity to meet life’s
ganization announced it. Earlier detection could have had a unforeseen challenges. How do you see creativity being best uti-
significant impact on better containing the outbreak. lized for our future generations?
AMM: As someone who has had the honor of gracing the TED MB: Art can elevate our spirits by tapping into what makes us
stage how do you value the collaboration of minds in sync for human, coming back home to who we are at our core. I attend
combatting a specific goal? small, live music performances most every week. I work on my
Monika Blaumueller: To accomplish meaningful innovation own creative writing and help edit that of others. A friend of
requires collaboration from multi-disciplinary, potentially dis- mine says when she is stuck on a problem, she leaves her of-
parate teams. Further, we have to step outside of our day to day fice and takes her son to the playground. Solutions are more
mindset and put aside concerns such as quarterly metrics. We forthcoming when she is in the sandbox than at her computer
have to become more fluid in our thinking. For example, when screen.
Allen Anderson launched the world’s first word processor, he To meet our great, multigenerational challenges, like climate
had to get typists past the question of why the return key was change, removing the trash, microbeads or toxic chemicals
‘missing.’ Stuck thinking in their paradigm of how a typewriter from the oceans, I believe that we need make time for creativity,
play, sleep, down time, music, art and other forms of beauty. ?
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