Leadership - Jeff DeGraff - The Dean of Innovation

Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity (Part 1)

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

Jeff DeGraff / January 2, 2014

Innovation is messy. It’s about constructive conflict—not agreement. There are twists and turns—not straight lines. And it happens in gray

Jeff DeGraff / September 11, 2013

Each year around this time the calls and emails start – magazines, associations, think tanks. “What are the most innovative

DETROIT, JULY 24 – OpenCo, a unique “inside-out” business conference, has selected Detroit as their next global destination for a

In some practical ways our world is still illuminated by the Scottish Enlightenment that brought us such goodies as electromagnetism,

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

Innovation poses two problems for most leaders, given the way they are trained to think. First, its value diminishes over

Jeff DeGraff / January 16, 2013

Chances are, innovation doesn’t work where you work — or only works some of the time, mostly in spite of