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 […]
Failure
Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 4)
Narratological Creativity: Have you ever heard a child try to get its story straight? Or maybe you have dear friend
Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t
Pull out the list of the “most innovative companies” from your favorite business magazine. With the exception of their brand
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Break Down the Game Film
American football is a game of strategy and confidence tricks that would make a flimflam man rosy. Commanders, sandbaggers and
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Waffle House
By Guest Author James Adams As evidenced by the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and European debt debacles, the pervasive sense of
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Wrong Way Columbus
Most school children know the story of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus though its interpretation now ranges anywhere from
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Necessity and Innovation: How to Utilize the Blessings of Dark Time
Why is necessity the mother of invention? If positivity leads to high performance, then why is it that breakthrough innovations
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I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take It Anymore
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” declared the longtime news anchor Howard Beale in
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We Grow When Our Life Sucks
“When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose” (Bob Dylan) Organizations are designed to maintain their equilibrium. Our
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Fail Early and Off-Broadway
“You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after