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Sep 2, 2014 Innovation: Old Crops, New Soil Did you know that some of the largest chapters of agricultural groups like the Future Farmers of America are in urban centers? Read More

Aug 25, 2014 Jeff DeGraff on “The Second Stage” Jeff DeGraff was recently a featured guest on the radio show “The Second Stage.” Read More

Aug 25, 2014 Can the “Commies” Innovate? The headlines about the economic fortunes of the 1% and the associated political maneuvering to influence and manipulate our world view are disturbingly reminiscent of those in the early-twentieth century when mega-corporations called “trusts” ruled the day. Read More

Aug 18, 2014 Innovation: There Is No Final Destination Innovations don’t stay innovations. Read More

Aug 11, 2014 How to Make a Creative Genius Meet Jack. He knows he will never be a creative genius. Read More

Aug 4, 2014 Innovation: Making the Unknown Known In his magnum opus Critique of Pure Reason, the philosopher Immanuel Kant builds a bridge between what is known, what is unknown and what is unknowable. Read More

Jul 28, 2014 Innovation Starts in Dark Places There is a dark, untold back story of innovation that may disturb you: many of the earliest forms of the world’s biggest technological advancements were pioneered by bad people in morally corrupt contexts. Read More

Jul 21, 2014 Originality is Not All That Original What do William Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin have in common? Read More

Jul 14, 2014 The False Ambition of Innovation Booze only brings false courage but coffee incites false ambition, an equally dangerous proposition. Read More

Jul 7, 2014 Innovation Now or Later? Have you ever had two seemingly unrelated things happen around the same time and each in some way produced an insight into the other? Read More

Jun 30, 2014 Beautiful Innovation Orphans In the captivating fairy tales of the Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm there is often a perfect and pure magical child who is unmercifully mistaken for an ordinary mortal. Read More

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. Read More