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As the waves of COVID-19 come and go during the pandemic, we've shifted back and forth between working from home (WFH) and going back to working and doing things in essentially unconstrained ways. Likewise, teachers, professors, and corporate trainers had…

Creativity Innovation Method X-IDEA

How to create whopping ideas quickly with word play

Detlef ReisJuly 1, 2021

“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look for things in different ways,” noted Edward de Bono, one of the pioneers in the creativity domain. One of my favorite ways to break out of expected patterns and…

Creativity Genius Journey Innovation Method

Flex your mental muscles with astonishing creative puzzles

Detlef ReisJune 17, 2021

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; thus does inaction sap the vigor of the mind,” noted Leonardo da Vinci. Creative geniuses like da Vinci know that without action and movement, nothing…

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…

Business Creativity Innovation

How to take your revenues from a million to zillions

Detlef ReisMay 20, 2021

During the past two weeks, I’ve been busy translating much content into my mother tongue, which is German. Together with two colleagues at Bangkok University’s Institute for Knowledge & Innovation, South-East Asia (IKI-SEA), I co-authored an extensive academic chapter for…

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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