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Lessons in Leadership: Responding to the Question of Value

The future of the design profession will be determined by value . . . both perceived and objectively measured.  The traditional built environment disciplines of design are all at the crossroads of relevance.

Lessons in Leadership: The Leader of the Future

At DesignIntelligence, we contemplate leadership in this rapidly altering reality.  We wonder what the leader of the near future will have to be like. 

Lessons in Leadership: The Pursuit of Understanding

The pursuit of understanding is somewhat of a mystery - it occurs through different pathways, known and unknown.

Lessons in Leadership: Time's Finiteness

We assign the idea of currency to time, which we spend. The only difference is that we don’t get to earn more time as we might earn more currency. What is equally a mystery is not knowing how much time any individual actually has left...

Lessons in Leadership: Planning and Execution

Every effective plan requires accountable assignments tied to time-based deliverables that individually and collectively advance the business impact and influence of the firm.

Lessons in Leadership: Resilience in Uncertain Times

Then dynamics of the last several months are not in the normal course of ups and downs, nor the usual patterns of cyclical change.  We are in a different and unusual place...

Lessons in Leadership: Adopting a Victim Mindset

Adopting a victim mindset is a losing proposition and frankly is not a leadership characteristic any of us should aspire to. 

Lessons in Leadership: Unchanging Values

As leaders, how do you effectively and successfully lead in this never-ending context of change? It begins with daily reaffirming the unchanging nature your leadership values. Leadership values are relevant and applicable regardless of what else is changing.

Lessons in Leadership: Attributes of Resilient Businesses

Resilient businesses are marked by certain attributes that operate in an intertwined way to yield the intended results.  Like strands woven together, these attributes have a direct and indirect reliance on one another. 

Lessons in Leadership: A Positive Manner

Upon returning he leaned over and in a low tone said, “I appreciate your speaking with me earlier.  I’ve lost my joy in the job and seem to be carrying negative around everywhere I go.  Your manner and positive way was a good poke in the eye.  Thanks!”