Growth - Jeff DeGraff - The Dean of Innovation

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Jeff DeGraff / February 14, 2012

The causes of poverty have long vexed scholar and practitioner alike. Whether the result of political indifference and incompetence or […]

Jeff DeGraff / February 1, 2012

“Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.” (Otto von Bismarck

Jeff DeGraff / January 3, 2012

“Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.” (H. G. Wells) We are awash in contradictions.

Jeff DeGraff / November 11, 2011

“Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.” (Francis Bacon) As with all religions or political philosophies,

Jeff DeGraff / November 4, 2011

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” (Harry Truman) Ornithologists report that New Caledonian crows fashion twigs

Jeff DeGraff / November 3, 2011

My new manifesto for ChangeThis.com has been published: “There are four fundamental forces that pursue competing values and pull us

Jeff DeGraff / November 1, 2011

The Green Bay Packers played their rivals the Minnesota Vikings in what National Football League fans call the “black and

Jeff DeGraff / October 27, 2011

Why is necessity the mother of invention? If positivity leads to high performance, then why is it that breakthrough innovations

Jeff DeGraff / October 25, 2011

“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man.” (John Keats) The

Jeff DeGraff / October 17, 2011

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” declared the longtime news anchor Howard Beale in