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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!”

It Takes An Ecosystem

Chris Allen is Global Principal at Jacobs, a purpose-led, technical professional services firm with approximately $16 billion in annual revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000.  He works collaboratively with partners and clients to co-create and align innovative technologies, practices, and business models to deliver economic, environmental, and social benefits through high-performance sustainable/regenerative solutions. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about balancing optimism with the reality of the complex environmental challenges, why the SDG framework doesn’t have to be specific to be effective, and how Jacobs continues to adapt and evolve by adding diversity in collaborators and points of view.