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Who are you? Your present you? Your past you? Your future you? Or all of these temporal identities? Suppose you or your organization invested in a personal assessment test to profile you. What profiling test would you prefer: A test…

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How to resolve the dilemma of creative leadership development

Detlef ReisSeptember 10, 2020

In studies by IBM (2010) and the World Economic Forum (2015), CEOs of the world’s leading corporations identified creativity as the essential leadership skill. When IBM surveyed the Chief Human Resources Officers in 2011, however, two out of three reported…

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How creative leaders epitomize their Genius Journey

Detlef ReisJune 18, 2020

Last week, I presented new research on creative leadership development at the ISPIM (International Society for Professional Innovation Management) XXX! Innovation Conference 2020. Originally supposed to take place in Berlin, the conference for the first time unfolded as a virtual event following the…

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Hot or not? A modern-day parable of the talents

Detlef ReisJune 4, 2020

Failed pitches in business are an excellent opportunity for learning. Some time ago, two innovation managers working at the European head office of a Multinational Corporation in a mature industry had expressed interest in TIPS, Thinkergy’s innovator profiling tools for…

Fake news is dangerous and makes you blind for the truth

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How to avoid falling for fake news

Detlef ReisMay 21, 2020

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it,” noted the French mathematician, physicist, and inventor Blaise Pascal. We are living in an era of COVID-19 and of…

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How prospective creative leaders experience their hero’s journey

Detlef ReisMarch 12, 2020

How do prospective creative leaders experience their inner “hero’s journey” of undergoing a structured and creative training program in creative leadership? In collaboration with my colleagues Brian Hunt and Xavier Parisot (IKI-SEA, Bangkok University), I investigated this research-guiding question in…

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