Category: TIPS | Thinkergy

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day,” noted Mark Twain with a twinkle in the eye. As a German (and unlike our neighbors to the west),…

Business Innovation Method TIPS

So your talents have been TIPS-ed, now what?

Detlef ReisJune 3, 2021

Suppose you’re a human capital manager in a start-up venture, a business unit, or a mature organization. Suppose further that your organization has just profiled a larger number of managers and employees with TIPS, Thinkergy’s cognitive profiling test for business…

Innovation Innovation Method TIPS

All models are wrong. So what?

Detlef ReisMay 6, 2021

“All models are wrong, but some are useful,” noted the British statistician George Box. I came across this aphorism in a TIPS training workshop with a business group from Switzerland. When one participant commented that a detail in her profile…

Business Innovation Method TIPS

How to pivot your career to succeed in the coming decades (Part 2)

Detlef ReisJanuary 14, 2021

In this three-article series that started four weeks ago, we preview how you can evolve yourself and your career to benefit from the substantial transformations of business and the economy that we can expect in the coming 2-3 decades (as…

Business Innovation Method TIPS

How to pivot your career to succeed in the coming decades (Part 1)

Detlef ReisDecember 17, 2020

Where are you in your career right now? Perhaps you're a late Boomer and now are in the golden years of your career shortly before your retirement. Maybe you're a member of Gen X and in the 2020s enter the…

Business Innovation Method TIPS

How to develop talents the right way with TIPS (Part 2)

Detlef ReisDecember 3, 2020

The transformative changes that will likely affect many industries in the coming years will require companies to upskill and reskill their workforce on a large scale. Two weeks ago, we discussed in part 1 of this 2-article episode how a…

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