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Innovation You
Jeff DeGraff’s approach to creativity is insightful.
He counsels – wisely, I think – that if you are not ‘creativizing’ (“adding creativity to each element of what you do”) you are really missing out on some great opportunities in life. He helps you not only to have innovative ideas, but to realize them – so different. His four-color system for understanding your mode of approach to innovation helps you assess both the characteristic strengths and weaknesses of each style. This self-awareness is critically important for your success at innovating your own life.
Self-awareness must be accompanied by awareness of, interest in the territory, the ‘weather,’ the events and movement around you.
Successful innovation requires us to notice what is moving and growing around us…The choice to ride what moves can make the difference between innovation and slow decay for an individual, an organization, even a city or country.
I love that: “ride what moves”!
This author has an interesting take on the 80/20 rule and various related approaches to maximizing your efficiency, or productivity. “…if you constantly optimize your life for productivity, it doesn’t give you more time. It takes up more of your time…”
DeGraff’s alternative? The ‘20/80 rule’:
Innovation requires us to break off and protect a relatively small piece of time and then, in that protected area, forget efficiency and short-term gains in favor of experimentation and long-term improvements.
I will tell you that DeGraff was spot-on in his warnings about my (Green) weaknesses. I hope you’ll look him up and let him help you learn how to “create a new hybrid approach that enables a new capability” somewhere in your own life.
We need more effective, creative Catholic innovators in this world! Bravo, Jeff DeGraff (I hear he’s Catholic…yay!).
(By the way: if you’re Yellow, I need you! Call me!)
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