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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.
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Mar 3, 2014
Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 4)
Narratological Creativity: Have you ever heard a child try to get its story straight?
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Mar 13, 2013
Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t
Pull out the list of the “most innovative companies” from your favorite business magazine.
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Jun 14, 2012
Break Down the Game Film
American football is a game of strategy and confidence tricks that would make a flimflam man rosy.
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Dec 9, 2011
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 economic malaise that began more than three years ago isn’t fading anytime soon.
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Nov 22, 2011
Wrong Way Columbus
Most school children know the story of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus though its interpretation now ranges anywhere from the triumph of the spirit to persevere in the Age of Discovery to some corrupt form of economic plundering in the Age of Imperialism.
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Oct 27, 2011
Necessity and Innovation: How to Utilize the Blessings of Dark Time
Why is necessity the mother of invention?
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Oct 17, 2011
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 the 1975 film classic Network.
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Aug 12, 2011
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.
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Aug 9, 2011
Fail Early and Off-Broadway
“You know, I believe we have two lives.
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