The Future Has Come and Gone: You Just Missed It
The fundamental difference between leading and leading innovation is simply this: there is no data on the future where breakthrough […]
Jeff DeGraff
Want Radical Innovation? Here’s Where to Look
Innovation happens behind-the-scenes. It’s often not the faces of a company–the directors and managers–who come up with breakthrough ideas but
Distinguished Achievement Awards Nomination
Every two years the Thinkers50 (T50) ranks the top 50 thought leaders in management and innovation. Because it relies on
The Inverse Innovation Cycle: How Failure Becomes Success and Success Becomes Failure
There’s something that leaders don’t tell you about success. It occurs in a seemingly inverse order: after failure and then
Innovation Starts in the Belly of the Beast
In the Biblical parable, God commands Jonah to make a journey to a foreign land and preach against the wicked.
Innovation in Higher Education: Here We Go Again
According the Chronicle of Higher Education and National Public Radio, competency based education is the new thing. Actually, it’s the old thing. Vocational
Why Courage Is More Important Than Creativity
A crisis is the perfect start to your revolution. When an organization is at its most vulnerable point, it is
How to See the Future First
One of the biggest challenges innovators face is to truly understand the market opportunity space before they start creating a
What Are You Willing to Give Up to Get Innovation?
Most descriptions of innovation end up in overreaching hyperbole: groundbreaking, disruptive, radical. This shouldn’t surprise anyone because innovation is basically
Looking for “The Next Idea” to Move Michigan Forward
Originally published on MichiganRadio.org The creative, the visionary, and the just plain out there. That’s the goal of Michigan Radio’s