Innovation You

Creativity

How to Take Advantage of Your Creativity

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on February 19, 2019

Creativity will never be an item on a pull-down menu you can click to activate on-demand—creativity demands you.

Creativity

The 5 Levels of Mastering Creativity

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on February 13, 2019

Here are the five levels and types of creativity, from the easiest to the most difficult to master, along with suggestions for building creative muscle:

Leadership

Four Leadership Types and Their Attributes

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on February 6, 2019

There is more than one type of leadership.

Creativity

4 Ways Leaders Can Best Encourage Innovation

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 23, 2019

To encourage innovation, leaders need to stop relying on old ways and become forward-thinkers. These are the actions they can take.

Creativity

How Unlikely Partners Challenged Each Other to Innovate

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 16, 2019

Innovation requires harnessing the positive tension of constructive conflict. These examples show how unlikely pairs challenge each other to create something new.

Creativity

How Your Company Can Best Leverage Different Perspectives

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 11, 2019

A simple four-step framework to explain the ways different kinds of thinkers and leaders can create constructive conflict in any organization.

Creativity

The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on December 19, 2018

Harness the creative power of constructive conflict.

Creativity

4 Easy Steps to Jump-Start Your Team’s Innovation

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on November 27, 2018

Innovation is not produced through alignment or agreement but rather through the positive tension that comes from constructive conflict.

Gender

#StandTaller Movement for Women Entrepreneurs

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on November 1, 2018

Things are a changing for women in business with the launch of the #StandTaller campaign.

Creativity

Efficiency Can Kill You

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on February 1, 2018

These days we make productivity something like a religion.

Creativity

Cultivating Innovation to Stand Out

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 18, 2018

It is important to find value in being different. In this episode, I interview innovation instigator, Stephan Shapiro.

Creativity

Light Your Fire With the Sparks of Diversity

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 8, 2018

From the point of view of creativizing, it’s really the same challenge. I ask them: where could you find the sort of people you’re looking for?

Creativity

The Secret to Innovation? Ride What Moves

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D. on January 4, 2018

Successful innovation requires us to notice what is moving and growing around us, and to find ways to harness its energy to get us where we want to go.