CHAPTER 11

MyT-Me—Your Personal T-Shape Scoring System

Louis E. Freund1

Abstract

This paper presents a schema for reflecting a person’s professional and personal background, accomplishments, and experiences in a manner that is quantitatively indexed in a scoring system related to the definition of the T-shaped professional. Sub-metrics for the T-top score and the T-stem score are discussed. An example graphic report of an Excel-based tool to display the results of the assessment is presented.

Introduction

The concept of the T-Shaped professional has been widely discussed (see, for example: http://tsummit.org/t). It is agreed, generally, that having depth in a specialization or discipline, as well as breadth in experiences across multiple systems, ...

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