Tag: Jeffrey DeGraff

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

Jul 24, 2013 OpenCo Festivals selects Detroit for Upcoming Business Innovation Day DETROIT, JULY 24 – OpenCo, a unique “inside-out” business conference, has selected Detroit as their next global destination for a celebration of open-style business. Read More

Jul 9, 2013 MacGyver Mind, McDonald’s Mind In some practical ways our world is still illuminated by the Scottish Enlightenment that brought us such goodies as electromagnetism, capitalism and single malt whisky. Read More

Mar 18, 2013 Oh, The Joys of Screwing Up Innovation poses two problems for most leaders, given the way they are trained to think. Read More

Feb 11, 2013 Why Leaders Don’t Understand How to Play the Innovation Game – and How You Can Help Them Win You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity methods. Read More

Jan 16, 2013 Why Innovation Is So Hard Chances are, innovation doesn’t work where you work — or only works some of the time, mostly in spite of your organization’s system and processes. Read More

Nov 27, 2012 Changing Into Your Christmas Culture What if you could change your culture? Read More

Nov 15, 2012 Your Only Friend Innovation is different from everything you do as a leader in three distinct ways. Read More

Nov 7, 2012 Rebalancing Your Portfolio Life Have you ever fantasized about your great escape? Read More

Oct 10, 2012 Innovating Your Way to a Good Job The Great Recession is over or so we are told. Read More

Oct 3, 2012 Ever Onward “The world is its own magic.” (Shunryu Suzuki) We give counsel to kings, boom to the voice of the wizard and call the blue hot fire of the universe to dance. Read More

Sep 26, 2012 Thoughts on How to Grow “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Read More