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Trying to Create Tomorrow’s Company with Yesterday’s Rules and Tools: Part 3 – Moving from the Old to the New

Last time we explored some of the new innovation methods that are unseating the established conventional approaches that many companies […]

Last time we explored why Millennials won’t use the old Boomer innovation methods. This time we will discuss some of

If you have ever been to a TED talk or OpenCo conference or any other semi-chaotic gathering of clever Millennials

Intuitive Creativity: This final and most challenging level of creativity has often been promoted to the realm of spiritual and

Narratological Creativity: Have you ever heard a child try to get its story straight? Or maybe you have dear friend

Jeff DeGraff / February 17, 2014

Bisociative Creativity: Bisociative is a term coined by the controversial novelist Arthur Koestler in his celebrated bookThe Act of Creation to

Jeff DeGraff / February 10, 2014

Is everyone creative? Sure they are but in very different ways and to varying degrees. There is a big difference

Jeff DeGraff / February 3, 2014

“One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.” Albert Einstein Innovation poses

Jeff DeGraff / January 27, 2014

In most dynastic organizations there is a special role for the highly practiced innovation master who apprentices the novitiate through

Barry Sanders, arguably the greatest running back to every play football, never spiked the ball when scored a touchdown. He