Design Leadership Notebook

Sometimes a book comes to you at exactly the right time. Yesterday I found a book on my desk that was a book like that. The book is called…

We are in the midst of a leadership crisis. The rational, ego-driven authority model of organizations that is based on ideas that are over…

My drive, my mission is to increase creativity, potential in people. In myself but even more in others. There is so much that can be done…

The dominant organizational models we use today are based in some way, shape, or form on the principles of Scientific Management. This…

Design thinking has been around for a while now. I have been practicing it for almost ten years now. All innovations follow the Gartner…

A couple of years ago, my oldest son wanted virtual money to buy virtual products for his birthday. I grew up in a time of buying and…

“The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety.” — Laura Delizonna, Harvard Business Review

I have been thinking about leadership a lot and the role that design can play in that on this blog. There are lots of ways design can play…

To me, strategy is about potential. There is always potential for growth. Strategy is about finding the area where the most potential for…

Radicals are people who change things by going to the root of things. Radical comes from the Latin radix which means root. Radicals are…

Meetings can be places of creativity where people come together to uncover ideas that couldn’t be uncovered by individuals alone. There is…

Everything changes, nothing remains without change. All things are connected so if one things changes, other things change. Organizations…