Presence of Mind - Jeff DeGraff - The Dean of Innovation

Omphaloskepsis aka Contemplating Your Own Navel

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

Recently I spoke to a conference of leading business school deans about the prospects of the MBA degree. My speech

Some of the most fantastical advancements in modern science and technology are designed to predict weather patterns. Seeing a hurricane

In peak moments of flow and manic machinations of enthusiasm unbound we kid ourselves into believing that we truly know

Gestalt psychology espouses that we make sense of the chaotic and variant stimuli that barrage us at every moment of

Jeff DeGraff / January 16, 2012

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know

Jeff DeGraff / December 12, 2011

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look

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 / August 29, 2011

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter

Jeff DeGraff / August 17, 2011

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been. (Sophocles) Epistemology is the study of