Category: TIPS | Thinkergy

I openly admit it: These days, I usually run against the crowd. And I love it. Here is why and what you can learn from this. My against-the-crowd running started sometime after I became a competitive middle-distance runner. In a…

Creativity Innovation Method TIPS

Tradition: The preserving force counterbalancing innovation

Detlef ReisSeptember 22, 2022

A few days ago, I watched with admiration some parts of the state funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II of England. I couldn’t help thinking, “Wow, they put on quite a show.” At times, the ceremony felt like being transported…

Creativity Innovation Method TIPS X-IDEA

Left-brain thinkers! Shuffle attributes to develop fresh ideas

Detlef ReisApril 21, 2022

Our innovator profiling method TIPS distinguishes people into three different styles of thinking preferences: Left-brain-directed “Figure thinkers” prefer a more analytical, quantitative, and sequentially structured style of thinking, while right-brain directed “Fantasy thinkers” enjoy “connecting the dots” when thinking creatively…

Business Creativity TIPS

Creatives! How to best eat that frog

Detlef ReisSeptember 30, 2021

“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…

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