Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class Attracting the Creative Class is About Culture, Tolerance, and Quality of Life Where Creative Workers Locate is Where Innovation and New Businesses ...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2019/08/22/creatives-build-rural-economies/
A Culture of Incivility Harms USA Innovation Five Ways Incivility “Decapitates” Innovation The recent flap around Kathy Griffin’s posting a picture of a fake severed head, of our President,...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2017/06/05/five-ways-incivility-decapitates-innovation/
Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue. Let’s look at it from a pragmatic perspective if possible. Raising the minimum wage in Silicon...
I asked myself a different question today: What do I believe about innovation but simply avoid saying to be politically correct? What am I not saying? At the risk of being labeled a curmudgeon I...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2014/02/21/eight-politically-incorrect-statements-about-innovation/
Precious readers, greetings from the dark night, where I write, jet-lagged, arthritis-nagged, caffiene-jagged — but writing for you, once again, trying to provide insight, information, and ulti...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/12/14/top-40-innovation-blogger-top-10/
Ask John Sculley, the man who fired Steve Jobs — would he do it again? Probably. As Michael Corleone once said about a fellow mobster taking sides against him just as he took power — “it’...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/07/09/six-reasons-not-to-fire-steve-jobs/
My last blog post, by far, was the most viral piece I’ve written in four years of blogging. Provocative titles and edgy content seem to win readers. And it would appear that creative style is a...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/04/12/would-steve-jobs-have-fired-thomas-edison/
There is a great deal being said and written about the late, great, Steve Jobs. He was a complex personality — and a remarkable leader. Folks often overlook the personality piece and focus on t...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/04/06/if-steve-jobs-worked-for-you-youd-probably-fire-him/
Thank God for Susan Robertson. Susan is a friend and colleague, and a principal at the innovation firm Ideas To Go. I’m happy Susan took the time to respond to yet another article in a respecte...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/01/21/it-takes-two-in-the-innovation-tango/
I’ve heard some rather direct and harsh criticism of President Obama’s recent comment about the USA being a “bit lazy” the last few decades. I’ll agree his comment is a bit unfair from ...