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Sep 15, 2014 Innovation: Master the Art of SODOTO Ornithologists report that New Caledonian crows fashion twigs into tools for collecting and extracting insects from the hollows of trees. Read More

Sep 2, 2014 Innovation: Old Crops, New Soil Did you know that some of the largest chapters of agricultural groups like the Future Farmers of America are in urban centers? Read More

Aug 25, 2014 Can the “Commies” Innovate? The headlines about the economic fortunes of the 1% and the associated political maneuvering to influence and manipulate our world view are disturbingly reminiscent of those in the early-twentieth century when mega-corporations called “trusts” ruled the day. Read More

Aug 4, 2014 Innovation: Making the Unknown Known In his magnum opus Critique of Pure Reason, the philosopher Immanuel Kant builds a bridge between what is known, what is unknown and what is unknowable. Read More

Jul 28, 2014 Innovation Starts in Dark Places There is a dark, untold back story of innovation that may disturb you: many of the earliest forms of the world’s biggest technological advancements were pioneered by bad people in morally corrupt contexts. Read More

Jul 21, 2014 Originality is Not All That Original What do William Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin have in common? Read More

Jun 23, 2014 What Innovation Doesn’t Solve Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the big dreams and grand visions of my distant relative, Robert Fair DeGraff—a publishing innovator who co-founded Pocket Books in 1939. Read More

Jun 16, 2014 Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants Don’t let the word “digital” fool you in all this talk about how difficult it is for digital natives and digital immigrants to communicate. Read More

Jun 2, 2014 Innovation Isn’t Change Innovation isn’t change. It may seem like a minor difference but this is actually a huge distinction. Read More

May 27, 2014 The Art of Making Art My family belongs to a ponderous array of arts organizations – symphonies, museums, theater companies and a mélange of performance ensembles that defy category. Read More

May 19, 2014 Do You Have the Capacity to Innovate? The same thing happens to me once every three months. Read More

May 5, 2014 Invisible Innovators When I was eighteen years old I wasn’t exactly college material. Read More