Leadership - Jeff DeGraff - The Dean of Innovation

The Art of Making Art

My family belongs to a ponderous array of arts organizations – symphonies, museums, theater companies and a mélange of performance […]

The same thing happens to me once every three months. I’m productive and prolific and then, all of a sudden,

When I was eighteen years old I wasn’t exactly college material. Sure I was a champion wrestler and had some

Help! The personal development section of my favorite bookstore is expanding faster than the universe. It is a paradox of

Simplicity is the new thing. Quality is so over and innovation is fading into everythingness. We’ve all but given up

There is a new Starbucks in the main hall of the business school where I teach. I stand amazed as

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

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

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