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Jeff DeGraff is the Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He teaches MBA, EMBA, BBA, and Executive Education courses on leading creativity, innovation and change. Jeff’s research and writing focuses on innovation strategy, change and innovation competency development, creativity and innovation practices and methods, creativity communities and innovation networks, and leadership development.

He is an author and co-author of the books Innovation You, Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen, Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Company’s Growth Engine and Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations. His book, Making Ston Jeff DeGraff is the Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He teaches MBA, EMBA, BBA, and Executive Education courses on leading creativity, innovation and change. Jeff’s research and writing focuses on innovation strategy, change and innovation competency development, creativity and innovation practices and methods, creativity communities and innovation networks, and leadership development.

He is an author and co-author of the books Innovation You, Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen, Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Company’s Growth Engine and Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations. His book, Making Stone Soup, is a finalist for several book awards. In his newest book Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict, he argues that diversity of thoughts is an essential to innovation. He urges everyone to practice constructive dialogue and work in diverse teams to find hybrid solutions and develop unique approaches to solve difficult problems. In “The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills that Empower Innovation,” he and his wife, Staney, give all readers practical techniques and tools to be creative. It will be published in September 2020.

Jeff’s mission is “the democratization of innovation.” He brings innovation to everyone, every day and everywhere through his books, his public television program (Innovation You), columns (Inc.) and radio program (The Next Idea). His articles and thought leadership on contemporary business matters have been covered by Business Week, US News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal, to name a few.

Jeff’s client list reads as a ‘who’s who’ within the world of innovators, including, among many others, General Electric, Coca-Cola, American College of Surgeons, and Google. In working with these prominent firms, he has developed a broad array of widely used change and innovation methodologies and tools. Jeff’s creative and direct take on making innovation really happen have made him a world renowned thought leader and have prompted his clients and colleagues to dub him as The Dean of Innovation.

Jeff is a Managing Partner of Innovatrium, an innovation center and consulting practice that specializes in helping organizations make change and innovation happen. He serves as an advisor to think tanks and governments. He has worked all over the world, with significant experience in Europe and Asia, and in most industry and market segments.

Jeff was a member of the executive team at Domino’s Pizza when it was one of the fastest growing businesses in the world in the 1980’s. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The Nature of Reality, Part I

Every civilization develops narratives about what is real. Over time those narratives harden from interpretations into unquestioned assumptions. The modern industrial worldview treats reality as structure, mechanism, and process, something to be engineered and controlled. It has produced remarkable progress, yet it struggles to explain meaning, consciousness, and identity.

In Part I of Shaping the

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	Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and Improved 3.81 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict by Jeff Degraff (Goodreads Author), Staney Degraff (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 167 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower Innovation by Jeff Degraff (Goodreads Author), Staney Degraff (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 127 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen by Jeff Degraff (Goodreads Author), Katherine A. Lawrence 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Stone Soup: How to Jumpstart Innovation Teams 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Change: Transforming Paradoxes into Breakthroughs by Jeff Degraff (Goodreads Author), Staney Degraff (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Innovation Code 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kỹ năng sáng tạo trong làm việc nhóm by Jeff Degraff (Goodreads Author), Staney Degraff (Goodreads Author), Tiểu Quỳnh (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It’s comfortable and easy to stick with the things we believe, but by doing so we're also stifling our ability to be innovative.”
― Jeff Degraff, The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower Innovation

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“Develop your creative mindset and increase your awareness by keeping your eyes and ears open at all times and constantly changing your surroundings. Pay attention to what’s going on around you. Be present in the moment.”
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“If we treat the ideas that others put forward with empathy, we can draw on experiences beyond our own and gain new insights. Hence the old adage: “walk a mile in their shoes.”
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“Everyone, every day, and everywhere, can be creative in his or her own way. All they really need is an effective way of thinking and a few inventive skills to overcome their challenges and capture their opportunities.”
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“The Creative Mindset often starts out with one person’s unlikely, outside-of-the-box idea, but it requires the support of a team, and the willingness of others to experiment, to fully realize its magic.”
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