4 Di
4 Di
4 Di
The 4D-i
Think better.
Work smarter.
Bob Wiele
Thinking, problem solving and collaboration are the new smart skills for
the 21st century. Your 4 Dimensions Inventory (4D-i) is designed to
help you learn how to think better and work smarter.
Know Yourself
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Results Highlights
Creativity Strategies
Understanding Strategies
Decision-Making Strategies
Thinking, Feeling and Intuition
Personal Spirit
Results Summaries
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The 4D-i gives you the most useful thinking skills toolkit in the world.
It will help you get better results in your life, your work and your
relationships. To make it easy to use, we developed a simple, color
coded traffic light, to depict the 4 dimensions of high performance
thinking. Green is for creativity. Yellow is for understanding. Red is for
decision-making. White is for personal spirit. You can master all 4 of
them with practice.
APPRECIATE
STOP
DECIDE
SLOW
UNDERSTAND
GO
CREATE
INITIATE
WORK SMARTER.
People and teams today are paid to think. The best teams know
how to work smarter together. They can tap into the different
types of thinking skills their members have to come up with better
solutions, faster.
Grow Yourself
Personal Development Tips
Get Smarter Planner
Personal Success Planner
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Welcome to a new set of power tools for your mind, heart and
spirit. Your 4 Dimensions Inventory (4D-i) gives you a unique
inside edge. It will help you generate more ideas, connect and
communicate better with different people, be a more effective
team member and make smarter decisions.
Bob Wiele
Founder and President, OneSmartWorld
Lets Build a Smarter World
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Results Highlights
Welcome to your 4D-i Portfolio. This report gives you the tools
you need to generate more ideas, work better with others and
make smarter decisions. The Portfolio will help you understand
your strengths and expand your skills in all 4 dimensions of high
performance thinking. It shows you the mindsets and strategies you
like to use the most when you solve problems and work with others.
UNDERSTANDBLE
The color red, yellow or green is selected from the first 3 dimensions
and indicates your highest overall preference. It does not include results
from white. Cool shows a preference for using thinking strategies.
Warm shows a preference for using emotional strategies. Balanced
means an equal comfort for using both.
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OUTLOOK
Your Outlook is a belief that an optimistic, constructive approach to life,
enables one to find the positive, hidden potential and meaning in any
situation, task or person.
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KNOW
YOURSELF
GROW
YOURSELF
Your 4D-i is available in two formats. Access your online results 24/7, to deepen your understanding and get
more information. This print PDF Portfolio is an excellent resource to carry with you, or share via e-mail with
friends and colleagues.
COACH
Access the dashboard of your online 4D-i results. Hit the Coach tab to search for practical advice on how to
develop the specific strategies and skills you want.
PRINT TOOLS
The Working Smarter with Others job-aid, the Smart for Life book and workbook by Bob Wiele, give you more
practical applications and information for everyday use.
COMMUNITY
Use the Search application on your personal online 4D-i dashboard to share your highest preferences with
team members and to tap into their strengths, to improve communication and accelerate collaboration.
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Thinking style is a lens through which we view the world. Everyone has such a lens, and it colors the
way we interpret the events in our lives. Your thinking style is what causes you to respond emotionally to
events, so its your thinking style that determines your level of resilience your ability to overcome, steer
through and bounce back when adversity strikes.
- Karen Reivich, Ph.D and Andrew Shatte, Ph.D, The Resilience Factor
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Dimension 1: Creativity
Green is the color for creativity. Creativity in this system means the generation of a wide variety of options, ideas, alternatives and
fresh ways of approaching difficult situations and everyday challenges. This dimension works in two very different ways. Creative
thinking (cool green) is an active way to generate new ideas and options. Your creative intuition (warm green) produces Aha! types
of insights.
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...we now have an economy powered by human creativity. Creativity is now the decisive source of competitive advantage.
- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
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Your score is typical of most people, indicating that you tend to be comfortable
using brainstorm and apply it to the appropriate tasks and situations. Keep up the
good work. Remember to use brainstorm when you have to solve a problem by
coming up with new ideas, possibilities or alternatives.
You score a preference for envision that is much higher than most people. Keep up
the good work. You like to use your imagination to speculate on what might or
could happen. You can often picture the future in your mind's eye. You are
comfortable using envision as one of your key creative thinking strategies for
planning and problem solving.
Creative Intuition
Get Into the Flow: Being fully immersed in creative thinking; tolerating
ambiguity and conflicting information/feelings; refraining from decisionmaking, anticipating the arrival of a better idea.
Your Profile:
Average Preference
Your score is average, indicating that you tend to be comfortable using reframe as
one of your creative thinking strategies. Keep up the good work. You like to apply it
when you have to. Remember to use reframe when you want to take a positive,
constructive approach to problem solving. When you are stuck in a difficult
situation and you need to think up a positive, constructive way out, use reframe.
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Dimension 2: Understanding
Yellow is the color for understanding. In this dimension, you achieve a sense of fulfillment by spending the time and effort needed to
gain a complete understanding of the situation, problem or relationship that you are in. Your analytical thinking (cool yellow) leads to
an in-depth understanding of facts and situations. Your compassion (warm yellow) leads to an in-depth emotional understanding of
people and their needs.
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The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation or a relationship.
- Deborah Tannen, You Just Dont Understand Me
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Compassion
Your Profile:
Average Preference
Your score is average, typical of most people, indicating that you tend to be
comfortable using structure and apply it to the appropriate tasks and situations.
Keep up the good work. Remember to use the strategy of structuring when working
with large amounts of information, or in complex situations and tasks where you
need to bring order and discipline in order to move forward.
Your score is typical of most people, indicating that you tend to be comfortable
using empathize, and apply it to the appropriate tasks and situations. Keep up the
good work. Remember to use empathize when you need to understand all the
different emotions, viewpoints and perspectives about a problem or situation or
when you need to build trust and offer support to another person.
Your Profile:
Average Preference
Your score is typical for most people, indicating that you tend to be comfortable
using clarify as one of your repertoire of strategies. Keep up the good work.
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Dimension 3: Decision-Making
Red is the color for decision-making. This dimension is where you harness all the creative ideas generated in green and the in-depth
understanding gained in yellow, to make the best decisions. This dimension highlights three very different decision-making methods:
your critical thinking (cool red) leads to practical, logical conclusions. Your beliefs based decision-making (warm red) focuses on
using your beliefs and values to decide. Gut intuition (also warm red) is used to make quick decisions, in the moment, using your
gut instincts.
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Our success in all the roles we play student, worker, boss, citizen, spouse, parent, individual turns on the decisions we
make ... the ability to make smart choices is a fundamental life skill
- John S. Hammond, Co-author, Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Decisions
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Beliefs-Based
Values Driven: The strategy used for making decisions based on your
personal core beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.
Gut Intuition
Your Profile:
Trust Your Heart: Listening to your heart and your feelings as a guide for
making decisions about what to do.
Your Profile: Low Preference
You have a much lower preference for using the trust your heart strategy in making
decisions than most people. You likely prefer to make decisions on based on facts
or logic, rather than trusting your feelings and hunches. You may second guess
what your gut feelings are telling you to do, preferring to use more objective,
tangible and sensible approaches.
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Balanced
This means you are comfortable using both thinking and feeling
strategies to deal with people, challenges or tasks, without a
significant preference of one over the other.
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Feeling:
These are the three mindsets that keep you cool under pressure and give
you an objective way of thinking through challenges and problems.
These are the four mindsets that make use of your feeling-based strategies to
guide your communication, problem solving and decision-making.
Warm Heart
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3.
4.
Brainstorm ideas
Challenge assumptions
Reframe problems into opportunities
Envision possibilities
1. Tune-in to feelings
2. Empathize with others
3. Express feelings
1. Values driven
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and
because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never
exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
-Martha Graham, Pioneer of modern dance
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You have a predisposition to perceive life experiences optimistically and difficulties constructively. You like to focus on actively finding
thehidden potential, seeking constructive meanings and valuable lessons in the experiences you have.
Regardless of the circumstances, you are in the driver's seat of your own life. You have a deep belief in the power of your ability to have an
impacton the situation you are in. You believe that if you choose to act, you can make a difference.
Your Initiative
A belief that you should go above and beyond conventional boundaries, to do what it takes, to complete important tasks and assist others.
Taking initiative is one of the defining characteristics of high performers in every field. It often requires a fearless courage to act where others would not.
People with high initiative make things that need to happen, happen. They take responsibility to get things done, even when it isnt their job. Initiative is a driving
force in life success and in business innovation. People with initiative push the envelope and do what it takes to achieve high quality results for others.
Your Profile: Average Preference
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We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
-Marianne Williamson, lecturer & author
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Get to the Crux: Determine the essence or most critical aspect of a problem, issue or situation in order to take action.
Conclude: Reach a logical decision or resolution about what is the best way to proceed.
Validate the Conclusion: Pose tough questions to eliminate inferior options and poor quality information in order to critically assess and
ensure the best decision.
Rely on Experience: Rely upon and use ones past experience to guide decision-making and problem solving.
Analytical Thinking Scan the Situation: Survey the environment, person or situation to gather as much information as possible.
Structure Information: Organize information, data, people, resources and processes in meaningful and systematic ways.
Clarify Understanding: Sharpen the understanding of a situation by gathering information and by asking questions.
Creative Thinking
Brainstorm Ideas: Generate many ideas and a wide range of options prior to analysis or decision-making.
Challenge Assumptions: Question assumptions, the status quo and accepted wisdom in order to create new ideas, options or fresh ways
of dealing with the task at hand.
Reframe Problems into Opportunities: Create new ways of looking at a problem or situation by shifting the approach, angle or way of
thinking about it.
Envision Possibilities: Create mental pictures or imagine what if... scenarios about future possibilities or solutions.
Creative Intuition
Values Driven: Make decisions based on your personal core beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.
Trust Your Heart: Listening to your heart and your feelings as a guide for making decisions about what to do.
Tune-In to Feelings: Sense and connect with the emotional dimensions in a situation, other person or group.
Empathize With Others: Show kindness, caring, compassion, tolerance and deep understanding for, and a connection with others.
Express Feelings: Select and use the appropriate emotional and verbal language or communications method to get the true message
across to the receiver/audience.
Get into the Flow: Tolerate ambiguity, conflicting information and feelings, while refraining from decision-making, waiting for a better
idea or option.
Flash of Insight: Know intuitively without conscious reasoning and/or produce insights and hunches.
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Results
Decision-Making
7 Mindsets
Results
Critical Thinking
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Beliefs Based
Gut Intuition
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Understanding
Analytical Thinking
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Compassion
Creativity
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Creative Thinking
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Creative Intuition
Personal Spirit
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Challenge Assumptions
Reframe Problems
Envision Possibilities
Flow
Flash of Insight
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Your Outlook
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Your Initiative
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You have a strong set of values and beliefs that you use to guide your decisions.
Use your values to bring passion and commitment to the work you do and the life
you live. Don't impose your values unilaterally on others whose beliefs may differ
from yours. Great things are accomplished by those who truly believe in what they
are doing. Use this strategy with care in working with others. Use it to power your
actions.
Trust your heart when it is time to act. The faster life gets, the more you have to
rely on gut instincts as a guide. Use your intuitive wisdom as a powerful source of
information and guidance. When you have a tough decision to make, stop and ask
your inner guide: 'What feels like the right decision?' Listen very carefully to what
you are telling yourself. Learn to tune-in to this alternate channel for helping you
make the bettter decisions.
Your Outlook
Flash of Insight
Your positive outlook is a powerful key to your success. Your enthusiasm for life
and other people can create a positive environment for achieving high
performance. Coach others on how to find positive opportunities in every problem.
Show others how to seek out the hidden potential in whatever happens to them.
Find people and places that value and support your optimistic outlook on life.
You can get breakthrough ideas and flashes of insight if you learn to tune-in and
pay attention to them. This type of spontaneous, direct insight can give you
powerful solutions on any challenge you face. The key is to relax, open up and pay
attention to these ideas when they pop up. They may arrive at the oddest times.
Trust your own insights more and you will have better solutions to your problem
Express Feelings
You enjoy expressing your true feelings and communicating what you are thinking.
People know how you really feel on important issues. Your expression of feeling
works best when you are compassionate in your approach. Express your feelings in
ways that build mutual understanding. Express your empathy for others as well as
your own feelings. Use this to create a climate of openness and trust in your
relationships.
Look around before you leap. Information is good. Get more of it. It will give you a
solid foundation. You will make better, more informed decisions. Don't rely on one
source. Look beyond the obvious places when you gather information. Get second,
third and fourth opinions. Check out different points of view. Make sure you have a
strong understanding of all factors in situations or relationships before you plunge
ahead.
Envision Possibilities
Your tendency to create mental pictures of future possibilities is a powerful tool for
planning and problem solving. Your reliance on developing 'what if' scenarios lifts
you out of the details to find better solutions by looking forward, not backwards.
Be in the present as much as the future. Choose this strategy to make models, draw
pictures and formulate alternative creative solutions for future success.
Get to the crux or the heart of an issue is a vital critical thinking strategy. It helps
you to stop going in circles. Push hard to get to the real problem. Be persistent. In
any problem, ask: 'What is the real problem here?' Knowing what the real problem
is a key to making high quality decisions. Focus your attention on defining what the
real problem is and to avoid wasting time on solving the wrong problem well.
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DECIDE
SLOW
UNDERSTAND
GO
CREATE
INITIATE
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most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, and
sustained efforts to do something you cant do well or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you cant do,
that you turn into the expert that you want to become. - The Making of An Expert, Anders Ericsson
2. Deliberate thinking Experts not only use deliberate practice, they also think deliberately. The thinking process is no more left to chance
than is the conscious and deliberate practice of the skill. Experts think well and approach each challenge uniquely by working in all 4 dimensions.
Continually tap into white, personal spirit, to stay focused and positive during adversity. Deliberately go to yellow to analyze and understand the
situation; go to red to determine the crux of the problem; go to green to explore all options and shift to red to come to the best conclusion.
3. Daily hard work You cant get great or really good at anything without regular, sustained hard work and sacrifice. You have to put in the
miles. You may decide that world class expertise is not the level you want. But the reality is that hard, disciplined work is an essential aspect of
higher level skill development and high performance results in every field.
4. Passion The fire in any high performer is a passion for what they are doing. This passion is a personal choice for pursing what you choose to
do. Passion is the fuel you need to do the hard work and put in the time to achieve the knowledge, competence and results in the area you want
to be great in.
5. Perseverance The willingness to keep doing something and pursuing a goal despite obstacles. High performers dont quit early. Perseverance
is a state of mind. It is the heart of personal spirit. To become a high performer, you need to keep on keeping on, and not give up when you face
hard challenges.
6. Self discipline The ability to stay focused, act deliberately and refrain from doing things that subvert or distract you from what you need to
do to achieve your goal. Self discipline is as much about what you dont do as it is about what you do choose to do. Plan the work. Work the plan.
Dont wobble. No excuses. If you slip, get right back on track.
7. Positive outlook Optimism is a common characteristic of all high performers. Reframe challenges into learning opportunities. Use optimism
to persist on your path and get through the problems and inevitable roadblocks you face.
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3.
Critical Thinking
1. Get To The Crux
3. Validate The Conclusion
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4. Rely On Experience
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2. Conclude
Beliefs Based
1. Values Driven
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Gut Intuition
1. Trust Your Heart
Analytical Thinking
Step 1. Read over the list on this page and note your results.
Step 2. Assess your own current skill level for each item (not your
preference) by putting in a dot in:
1.
2. Structure Information
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3. Clarify Understanding
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Compassion
1. Tune-In To Feelings
2. Empathize With Others
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58
3. Express Feelings
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Creative Thinking
1. Brainstorm Ideas
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2. Challenge Assumptions
81
3. Reframe Problems Into Opportunities 64
91
4. Envision Possibilities
Creative Intuition
1. Get Into The Flow
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2. Flash Of Insight
Personal Spirit
1. Your Outlook
2. Your Sense of Control
3. Your Initiative
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It starts with getting clear on both your intention at the outset and the end result you want to achieve. Once the starting point and
end points are clear, then plan out what you need to believe, how you want to feel, what you need to think about and what you will
say and do to get you there. The more you use the system, the better your results will be.
Expanding capacity requires a willingness to endure short term discomfort in the service of long term reward.
- Jim Loehr and Anthony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement
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Step 1. Set Your Intention: Everything starts with intention. Describe in detail what your overall desire is. Get in touch and write
down why you are doing what you want to do.
Step 2. Believe It: List your own I believe... statements - the key, positive, empowering beliefs about yourself and your
commitment to your intention, that you will need to support the achievement of your desired results
Step 3. Feel It: Write down your own powerful and positive I feel... (terrific, confident, passionate, courageous, deeply committed)
statements. These are the feelings that you need to choose to be in the right emotional state.
Step 4. Think It: Describe clearly and specifically the positive, constructive self-talk phrases you will say to yourself, particularly
under pressure, to reinforce your beliefs and support your intentions. Identify any negative self-talk you tended to use in the past and
commit to replace it with the positive self-talk.
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Step 6. Do It: Make a list of the specific action steps you commit to. List the small steps and the big steps. Be specific. Make a plan
to get started. Set a timeline what you will do today, tomorrow, in the next 3 days, week...
Step 7. Achieve It: Write a detailed description of what successful achievement looks like. Describe success as clearly as you can.
Use the present tense and positive language, as if success is already in place for you..
You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As in your intention, so is your will. As is your
will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your world.
- Anonymous
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USE EMOTIONS
Use personal values, where appropriate
Listen to gut feelings
SHOW COMPASSION
Tune-in and listen carefully to everyone
Show empathy and caring for others
Express feelings effectively
Foster Creativity
THINK CREATIVELY
Brainstorm and encourage many new ideas
Reframe problems into opportunities
Challenge the current way of doing things
Have a clear vision of future possibilities
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3 DIMENSIONS
CREATIVITY
DECISION-MAKING
UNDERSTANDING
7 MINDSETS
CREATIVE
THINKING
18 SUCCESS
STRATEGIES
1. Brainstorm
Ideas
1. Get Into
The Flow
1. Scan The
Situation
1. Tune-in To
Feelings
1. Get to the
Crux
2. Challenge
Assumptions
2. Flash of
Insight
2. Structure
Information
2. Empathize
With Others
2. Conclude
3. Clarify
Understanding
3. Express
Feelings
3. Validate the
Conclusion
CREATIVE
INTUITION
3. Reframe
Problems
ANALYTICAL
THINKING
BELIEFS
BASED
1. Values
Driven
GUT
INTUITION
1. Trust Your
Heart
4. Rely on
Experience
4. Envision
Possibilities
4th DIMENSION
3 SUCCESS
FACTORS
CRITICAL
THINKING
COMPASSION
PERSONAL SPIRIT
Your Outlook
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Notes:
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Company Profile
OneSmartWorld is a Canadian-based, global human capital development organization that helps people and teams in business
and education succeed, by learning how to think better and work smarter. We enable our clients to unleash their peoples
creativity, to accelerate collaboration and spark innovation.
Our clients save time and money by using one integrated platform to develop high performance thinking skills, build great teams and
get more done using our lean meeting management system.
OneSmartWorlds solutions are based on our original research and development into the thinking styles of over 100,000 people, the
latest findings in brain-based learning, collaborative teamwork, positive organizational psychology and decades of proven results with
clients in business, education, government and not for profit organizations.
RIP IT: The RIP It/ Rapid Innovation Program Intensive is selected by business leaders seeking to accelerate strategy and solution
development. The RIP It program is a tightly structured collaborative planning and decision-making process. It produces high quality
results quickly. Our business, government, not for profit and education clients have used RIP It to increase engagement, accelerate
significant change and generate millions of dollars in new revenues and cost savings.
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