Innovation You

You, new and improved

Jeff DeGraff Ph.D.

How to Take Advantage of Your Creativity

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

The 5 Levels of Mastering Creativity

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:

Four Leadership Types and Their Attributes

There is more than one type of leadership.

4 Ways Leaders Can Best Encourage Innovation

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

How Unlikely Partners Challenged Each Other to Innovate

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

How Your Company Can Best Leverage Different Perspectives

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

The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

Harness the creative power of constructive conflict.

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

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

#StandTaller Movement for Women Entrepreneurs

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

Efficiency Can Kill You

These days we make productivity something like a religion.

Cultivating Innovation to Stand Out

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

Light Your Fire With the Sparks of Diversity

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?

The Secret to Innovation? Ride What Moves

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.

The Cavalry Isn’t Coming

Start a new chapter. Move your story forward.

We Grow When Our Life Sucks...

Is there no alternative to suffering in order to change and grow? Actually, there is.

How to Foster Innovation

How to foster innovation and creativity

How Improv Sparks Creativity:

Bob Kulhan discusses how improv can spark creativity.

Inspiring Art Through Innovation

The Dean of Innovation interviews thought leaders on the broad subject of innovation.

What Can Companies Do to Create a Culture of Innovation?

The benefits to joint innovation efforts are plenty.

Why Do We Fall Into Patterns of Doing Things the Same Way?

And how can these patterns be broken?

Top Examples of Innovation in Action

When people think of innovation, they usually picture gadgets or maybe a miracle drug. Oftentimes, the greatest innovations are subtler.

Adapting to New Cultures

Office Hours with Jeff DeGraff is a video series where the Dean of Innovation interviews thought leaders on the broad subject of innovation.

What Attributes Are Key to a Successful Leadership?

Leaders need to know where they have strengths and where they don’t.

Can Creativity Be Taught?

People’s creative abilities can be improved. However, it’s unlikely you’re going to become a creative genius like Einstein or Mozart without some natural talent.

What Misconceptions Do People Have About Innovation?

In a world where a single touch on a screen can bring us any service or product imaginable whenever we want it, creativity still runs at its own pace.

How Can People Become More Creative in Their Everyday Lives?

The gifted amateur as a heroic innovator is one of the great American myths

Currency Innovation: Bitcoin

Less than a decade away from our brush with economic Armageddon, we are deregulating the financial industry.

The Internet Is a Lot Less Democratic Than You Think

Right now, the net is in a consolidation phase. A few big players are gobbling up niche providers and creating enormous storefronts and networks.

What’s Coming Next in 2017?

“Uberization” has become part of our vocabulary. It means using technology to connect a loose federation of free agents to provide just-in-time services.

Americans Now See the Truth as Relative

Thirty years ago, University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind.

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